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Article: Microsoft's push to link cable TV up with the Net
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- November 7, 1997
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CopyrightCopyright 1997 The Independent - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Microsoft, Bill Gates' software giant, is hoping to take
centre- stage as the Internet and television converge by linking up
with leading US cable companies. Cathy Newman asks what Microsoft
stands to gain, and what cable companies have to lose.
In recent weeks, Microsoft has reportedly been talking with all
the big US cable companies - US West, Tele-Communications (TCI),
Cox Communications, and Time Warner.
Microsoft's interest in television took off earlier this year
when it invested $1bn (pounds 600m) in an 11.5 per cent stake in
Comcast, the fourth- largest cable television operator in the US,
and bought Web TV Networks, a digital television set-top box maker,
for $425m.
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