The invention of Motion sensing camera "Microsoft Kinect for XBOX" opened new dimension for the research community. First objective of Kinect was to work with XBOX for playing games. However, people started using it for the recognition of human activities. Kinect for XBOX provided two types of information 1) RGB and 2) Depth. People developed tools, drivers and algorithms to work with it. Later, Microsoft itself released the Windows edition of Kinect with a software development kit (SDK). However, several open source and propriety vendors modified the performance of their existing tools and drivers to work with Kinect for Windows. It was now difficult for the newer one to select an appropriate set of studio application and SDK to work with Kinect for Windows. Keeping in view this point, we have presented a study for the Windows edition of Kinect based on several features like platform, file formats etc. Our study will definitely help the research community involved with Kinect for Windows to select an appropriate set of drivers and SDK's for their work. This study will be a valuable contribution not only for the users of Kinect, also for the owners of various tools.