Whatever happened: DirecTV-Microsoft
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| It happens all the time.
|
| Company X and Company Y get together and announce a broad partnership to do a
| whole bunch of things. Executives smile, shake hands, and talk about all the
| great things they are going to do together.
|
| [...]
|
| So what has come to market? Absolutely nothing.
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http://www.news.com/8301-13860_3-9866037-56.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Mind the fact that if there's any bias here, it's in Microsoft's favour. It
comes from Ballmer Boot-licking Ina Fried, i.e. friend of abusive convincted
monopolists that bribe, blackmail, steal, sabotage and lie.
Related:
Microsoft blamed for AT&T TV hiccups
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| Microsoft has a spotty history on the gogglebox. In 1997 it
| spent about $425m to purchase WebTV Networks but failed to
| make the much-hyped phenomenon a success.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37231
AT&T Resumes Rollout for Cable TV
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| But because the software, provided largely by Microsoft Corp., has never
| been deployed on such a large scale, assorted glitches have forced AT&T to
| repeatedly delay and scale back the service rollout even though the
| required network upgrade remains on pace.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070228/at_t_tv.html?.v=2
Windows Media center crashining at CES 2005
http://youtube.com/watch?v=j7EEbokKLHI
Verizon takes over Microsoft TV code
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| Unhappy over the memory footprint of applications and delays in rolling
| them out, Verizon has ditched some of Microsoft's television software and
| has chosen instead to write its own.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060914-7742.html
Microsoft shuns IPTV open standards - is a web TV format war brewing?
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| As if consumers didn't have enough to contend with, the fact
| Microsoft and Alcatel-Lucent have shunned the Open IPTV Forum
| could mean we'll have another ludicrous format war on our hands.
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http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/10664/1085/
FiOS TV and MSFT: When End-to-End Becomes Best of Breed
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| Quoting: "With the project in danger of running behind schedule, Verizon
| sent its own employees to oversee the work between Microsoft and Motorola.
| Engineers from all three companies had several meetings a day to nudge
| the project along. Eventually, Verizon took over the development of the
| program guide altogether from Microsoft, and ended up writing a new
| version of the software that was less memory-intensive."
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http://weblogs.jupiterresearch.com/analysts/laszlo/archives/017055.html
MSNTV2 cluster using Linux!
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| These MSNTVs can be networked together to distribute tasks. The great
| thing about them which made it easier for Niacin was the fact that the
| MSNTV2 had normal PC hardware with a proprietary BIOS. Here's a picture
| of the MSNTV being flashed to run Linux.
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http://gadgets.qj.net/MSNTV2-cluster-using-Linux-/pg/49/aid/66787
Vista testers get unexpected holiday gift: No TV
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| Some people testing Microsoft's Windows Vista got an unexpected
| holiday surprise: their TVs stopped working.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6147259.html
Nortel not the only winner at Telus IPTV deal
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| But now it is back as the main contractor in an IPTV deal at Telus - a move
| that sees the Alcatel system thrown out or sidelined, the Microsoft Alcatel
| partnership that is dominating tier one telcos, snubbed, and a number of
| the small fry of the IPTV market getting access to the tasty 5.5m Telus
| customers this system is aimed at.
|
| [...]
|
| Faultline gave a heads up about this contract in May, when we heard that
| Microsoft's solution was internally rejected.
|
| [...]
|
| "To facilitate the rapid adoption of additional third party applications
| as they emerge, it is imperative that the environment be open and
| standards-based."
|
| The significance of this contract is that all the big guns from
| Microsoft, Alcatel, Lucent and Siemens were in the bidding and fell by
| the wayside and that Nortel was able to leverage its strength as an
| IP player.
|
| [...]
|
| If that results in any new business for Cisco then acquisition of
| Minerva can't be too improbable, and then it would own an end to end
| IPTV system, with or without Microsoft middleware.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/24/nortel_telus_iptv_deal/
Ex-MS security guru to dump Media Center for Linux?
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| Veteran Microsoft security expert, Jesper Johansson, says he may dump
| Microsoft's Windows Media Center in favour of Ubuntu-affiliated LinuxMCE
| after struggling with Redmond's DRM (Digital Rights Management) software.
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Ex-MS-security-guru-dumps-Media-Center-for-Linux/0,130061733,339282399,00.htm
http://tinyurl.com/34as9b
Windows Media Center Restricts Cable TV
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| A simple search on the subject reveals that HBO programming and, in
| my case, Braveheart on AMC are among the many selections now
| restricted for playback or recording by Windows Media Center
| Edition. What's next, restricting every piece of programming
| on television?
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http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/21/0138255&from=rss
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