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Article: Microsoft, AOL Shortchange Programmers.(both companies represented at Cable and Telecommunications Association for Marketing Summit)(Brief Article)
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- Multichannel News
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- August 13, 2001
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Two major rivals, AOL Time Warner Inc. and Microsoft Corp., are wooing potential partners in the cable industry and offering new visions of the broadband future.
A top executive from each company -- America Online chairman and CEO Barry Schuler and Microsoft president and chief operating officer Rick Belluzzo -- made their respective pitches at last month's Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing Summit in San Francisco.
Their presentations encompassed just about everything that's right -- and wrong -- about the current thinking in broadband.
The two executives appeared at CTAM shortly after their companies abandoned discussions ...