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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly?
MSFT 485.49+1.8%Nov 26 3:59 PM EST
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To: Teflon who wrote (22173)5/5/1999 4:14:00 PM
From: RTev  Read Replies (1) of 74651
 
Here's an article that was posted a while ago in the ATHM topic by that master of telco tech, Frank Collucio. It deals at length with Microsoft's TV-centered investments.

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[In an FCC hearing on digital must-carry, the Microsoft representive told the commission], "DTV services will embrace far more than just audio, video, and closed captioning....It will raise new possibilities regarding when content can be carried....Program-related data might not always be carried in real-time, [which] could have profound implications." Qwest's fiber network may one day interconnect video servers over a large area, giving anyone with an Internet connection access to high-quality video streams from all over the country or perhaps the world.

The author suggests some other Microsoft moves suggest a different view now prevails in Redmond. He says of that possible change:

That would be a missed opportunity, because Microsoft could be a potent advocate for expanding bandwidth, growing its market by re-orienting software toward the management of bandwidth abundance and counter-balancing the local telephone companies' continuing refrain that bandwidth is limited and the country has to live with it.
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...If Microsoft really wants to play a positive role in uniting DTV, computers, and the Internet, the company must be an advocate for more bandwidth.

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