Microsoft moves deeper into cable

[James Love <love@cptech.org>]

ttp://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19981207S0004

Microsoft Moves Deeper Into Cable 
(12/07/98, 11:00 a.m. ET)
By Junko Yoshida, EE Times 

ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Microsoft moved closer to its stated
intention of converging Windows CE and its WebTV
set-top last week at the Western Show held here when it
showed an early version of CE running on a reference
design that's based on a new version of the ASIC that
powers the WebTV system. 

The demo was just part of a series of broader moves --
including striking a development deal with set-top maker
Scientific-Atlanta -- designed to position the
PC-software company in the cable-TV arena. 

Microsoft and Scientific-Atlanta, in Norcross, Ga.,
announced two agreements at the show. Redmond,
Wash.-based Microsoft said it would let its WebTV
Networks service run on non-WebTV boxes for the first
time -- in this case, Scientific-Atlanta's Explorer 2000
advanced digital set-top box. Separately, the two
companies said they would collaborate in developing
Scientific-Atlanta's next-generation set-top, which will
run CE. 

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-- 
James Love, Consumer Project on Technology
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202.387.8030; f 202.234.5176
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