Microsoft's Ambitious Cable Plan
Ray Van Eng (05/06/96)
Microsoft is working with an international cast of cable operators including
Time Warner Cable, Singapore CableVision (SCV), Comcast Cable Communications
and the French Compagnie Generale de Videocommunication (CGV) to provide
high speed access to Internet and cable services to consumers via cable
modems.
Using Microsoft's Internet Explorer as the preferred browser, someone at home or at work can get online programming from cable and Internet sources, email, news, local and national content and community applications. The Singapore cable network would include content from MSN, the Microsoft Internet online service.
All these multimedia services will be built on the Windows NT operating system with Microsoft Internet Information Servers. Deployment of services will start in the third quarter of 1996.
Apparently, Microsoft is not only interested in selling content, they are also interested in buying. A recent deal with Germany's ZDF will give Microsoft the right to use the German government owned TV network's 50 years archive material that can provide MSN with such content as sports, tv scheduling and entertainment for internet online publishing. Beside NBC, the American TV network, ZDF will become another major supplier of content for MSN.
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