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To: Jim Mulis who wrote (2567)	8/23/1998 9:53:00 PM
From: art slott	Respond to of 4748

Jim, Msft wants to integrate the tv and the pc via the Web. Seems to me Actv has just what they need. Art Steve Guggenheimer, who oversees development of WebTV for Windows as Microsoft's group product manager for digital television, said last week that he was not surprised by -- or worried about -- consumer confusion about WebTV, which he called "the first integration of television and Internet infrastructure." The technology will continue to advance, he said, and will eventually be added to Windows CE, for hand-held devices, and Windows NT, the industrial-strength version of the operating system. "People think that Microsoft is trying to force everyone to watch television on their PC's," Guggenheimer said. "That's not true. We're working to integrate two information platforms. The PC is an information appliance, and television is another form of information. There are many ways they can be used separately or in combination." The goal, he said, is to develop an information machine that offers enough flexibility so that each user can take from it what he or she needs, whether it is Guggenheimer's watching a Sonics game in the corner of his screen on nights he works late or students in a classroom using interactive educational television with the Internet for enriched instruction.