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

To: Sir Francis Drake who wrote (23022)	5/20/1999 3:37:00 PM
From: Tom Chwojko-Frank	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

It was quite a lot of hype, and relatively low on substance (vaporware as usual). But big bandwith/internet was the message of the week. I just remembered I still have the CDs they handed out to the attendees. Here's a correction to my previous statement. It was spring 96. I'll wade through it again when I have some more time, and see if I find anything interesting. Tom

To: Sir Francis Drake who wrote (23022)	5/20/1999 3:44:00 PM
From: RTev	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

The old Wired magazine used to keep close tabs on Microsoft's TV efforts. Here's a summary from April, 1998 that is even more interesting considering Microsoft's recent investments: wired.com "Microsoft desperately wants to be in the box," says Gary Arlen of Arlen Communications, a research firm based in Bethesda, Maryland. "This was TCI's way of saying, We still control the real estate. From Microsoft's point of view, at least they've gotten in. But they don't control the box - yet." Remember that -- even though the CE part of the deal with AT&T has been emphasized -- the deal also included an agreement by AT&T to use Microsoft technology in two new interactive TV demonstration programs. Here's an earlier story from June, 1996: wired.com ...In part to support Microsoft's interactive TV efforts, the tiny media group, only five months old with just over a dozen full-time staff members, was chartered with building the "primal apps" for the company's video-on-demand system, codenamed Tiger. They were developing the key media components for Tiger - user interfaces and interactive program guides - as well as prototypes of a new breed of TV programming and services (one such was an interactive version of Bill Nye the Science Guy.)...