[Am-info] Microsoft/AT&T/Comcast...

[Geoffrey]

MICROSOFT'S PROBLEMS IN CABLE - [The Wall Street Journal, A1.]  TV 
software that Microsoft and others labored to design for AT&T Broadband 
has never been deployed and probably never will be.  Some who worked 
closely with Microsoft on the AT&T project say the company failed in 
part because it wasn't used to playing second fiddle on a technology 
project.  As all the companies on the project got closer to a 1999 
deadline to supply test versions of the software, more problems 
surfaced.  AT&T executives say Microsoft's software remained glitchy. 
AT&T was also concerned about cost.  An AT&T spokeswoman confirms that 
interactive TV "continues to be developed and explored, but it's not our 
main focus for 2002."  Instead, the company, whose merger with Comcast 
still hasn't closed, wants to improve customer service and rebuild its 
network to offer high-speed Internet and digital-phone services, she said.

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Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric@3times25.net

I didn't have to buy my radio from a specific company to listen
to FM, why doesn't that apply to the Internet (anymore...)?