Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Microsoft plans range of phones
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> | Microsoft is preparing to launch a range of audio and video phones
> | in an attempt to carve itself a slice of the global business
> | telecoms market.
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> | [...]
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> | According to Microsoft vice-president Gurdeep Singh Pall, the company is
> | having to manufacture the device itself, because the technology is so
> | "disruptive" to the communications industry that Microsoft could find no
> | major electronics company willing to produce it.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/03/25/cnmsoft25.xml
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> Monopolies that know no limits. ISP, electricity, hardware, gaming
> consoles, media players, peripherals, _oh!_... and some software as well.
Video phones didn't really take off in the UK. Amstrad used to do one, I had
one of those Amstrad phones, but I never did a video call on it because of
cause I was the only person I knew that had one (and I already know what I
look like). I let the kids play games on it once, but I stopped that when I
saw the first bill.
But now it can be done online I wonder if they will be any long term market
for anything of this sort. Unless their intention is to link to the online
phones. Then you are stuck again with the only down side of those things,
in my view, that the different VoIP's don't want to share their customers.
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