Microsoft Copr (NASDAQ: MSFT) is trying to redeem itself in the IPTV software market. After delivering broken software to telecoms, it is hoping to get things right for deployments next year.
Aside from some sales success with Deutsche Telekom, BT and AT&T, the software has not been rolled out extensively. Verizon also plans to use the product in its fiber-to-the home TV initiative.
But, that's the problem. Telecom TV is already decades behind the cable companies. And, big cable offers VoIP and fast broadband now. Even if the AT&T and Verizon fiber operations are built on time, any further delays or programming issues in the Microsoft IPTV software could delay an initiative in which the telecoms are trying to break the cable deadlock.
Research firm Gartner says that IPTV could be a a $13 billion business by 2010.
Not if the software doesn't work.
Douglas McIntyre is a partner at 24/7 Wall St.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
10-13-2006 @ 12:16PM
Gary E. Sattler said...
It's BPL I'm tellin' ya... BPL!!!
Semicondutors
Transformer bypass jumpers
Transmission Transformer Service Volume Upgrades
Internet direct wiring through the whole house!!!
Broadband never had it so good.
What's a guy gotta do to get a break around here?
10-25-2006 @ 10:16PM
Marcus C. said...
Microsoft better clean their mess soon. Or the sh*t wil stink big time. The Cable deadlock? Can this simple thing break it? I doubt it.