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To: Harvey Allen who wrote (915)4/10/1999 8:37:00 AM
From: Harvey Allen  Read Replies (1) of 1412
 
Spyglass deal to boost MS appliance capability?

Here we go again? Back in the run-up to the Windows 95 launch Microsoft realised its
browser development was going nowhere fast and licensed Mosaic from Spyglass as
the basis for what would become Internet Explorer. Now Microsoft is paying $20
million to Spyglass over three years in order to develop CE products.

But what kind of products? Since leaving the desktop browser wars to other parties
Spyglass has been busy elsewhere, with slimmed-down software for set-top boxes
and low resource appliances. One might hazard a guess that Microsoft, which has
been trying to develop appliance-type devices using CE, may have decided it has a
footprint problem, and is calling in the rescue squad again.

Under the deal Spyglass is to set up a technology centre in Silicon Valley to help
device manufacturers implement CE, and will also license technology to Microsoft. To
get an idea of what kind of devices this will cover, check out a technology
demonstration Spyglass and Lucent mounted last December. This was of a concept
product that sported a phone browser combining telephony, speech recognition and
text-to-speech technology. It was intended to allow users to navigate the Web using a
phone handset, and to work with Spyglass' Prism server-based content delivery
platform. This extracts and repackages Web content into a format suitable for phones
and similar footprint devices.

So actually the Spyglass-MS deal could cover server technology as well. Aha... ®


theregister.co.uk
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