Some encouragement for Microsoft, after being beaten over the last couple of months on its IPTV software: it has tied up with Scientific-Atlanta, a major TV set-top device maker, to work together.
Microsoft would provide the software operating system and Scientific-Atlanta would make the set-top boxes that would let people access and control all their digital content — video, photos, music — from one place. The two companies’ technologies would support the rollout of Internet-based TV by telecom giant SBC.
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