Microsoft has allocated more than $20 billion to spend over the next six years in a drive to grab a share of the film and music entertainment market, the Times reports…this amounts to half the company’s entire R&D budget until 2010.
It already has 270 patents pending on recent innovations that will allow customers to watch television streamed through the internet.
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