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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: cooksbay95 who wrote (20263)	4/11/1999 3:27:00 PM
From: RTev	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

MSFT had made 3 acquisitions in streaming media/interactivity. I'm not sure what the acquisitions would be. They recently signed a content deal with one of the aggregators of media and made a major investment last month in a company called thingworld.com which is a minor part of that market. (http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,33636,00.html) Separate, but related is the broadband market where Microsoft (unlike AOL) has made significant investments: news.com But the significant factor in streaming media is not what they've bought, but what they've built mostly in-house. Microsoft now offers both sides of the streaming media model. They offer a server (used by the provider to pump out that streaming data), and they have a client (used by individuals to view or hear the content). Most news stories give RealNetworks 85% market share in this area, leaving the rest mostly to Microsoft. But -- although I can't find the story now -- I did see something the other day that set Real's share of servers at about 65% and Microsoft's at a bit over 20%.