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Microsoft's Family Room Change

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the readjusting-the-strategy dept.

michael_cain writes "Siliconvalley.com is reporting that Microsoft is shutting down its Ultimate TV project. The service itself will continue to be offered. The set top box hardware developers are moving to the XBox organization. With the sales of the XBox already larger than either Ultimate TV or its predecessor, WebTV, it looks like Microsoft is adopting the game console as their method-of-choice for getting a platform to run their software into the family room." I found the decision to more or less put UltimateTV on life support and discontinue active work on it interesting - that leaves TiVo and ReplayTV as the main standing competitors.

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  1. Neither good nor bad... by FatRatBastard · · Score: 3, Funny

    Its Microsoft's marketing/innovation plan (and this isn't a bash.. they've been sucessful with it):

    Throw shit at a wall and see what sticks.

    They have the money to do it, it kinda makes sense. They tried the DVR and it didn't work out the way they first saw it. They'll go back, repackage it, throw it against the wall and see if it sticks again. If not, rince; repeat.

  2. Re:M$ hall of fame by Spencerian · · Score: 2, Funny

    Right. After watching Windows XP blow up on national TV during TechTV's "Call For Help" show, I'd say the "XP" stands more for "eXPlosive."

    Viva la Mac OS X, and TiVo.

    --
    Vos teneo officium eram periculosus ut vos recipero is.
  3. Re:30 skip feature at www.tivocommunity.com by Fishstick · · Score: 2, Funny

    Thanks for the link, although /. inserts spaces into it to stop page widening, the correct link is this

    Just a funny OT, the 404 message is very interesting on that site... some cool javascript black magic happening there, apparently...


    The requested document is totally not here!
    No /404 here.
    Even tried multi times.
    Nothing helped.
    I'm really depressed about this.
    You see, I'm just a web server..._

    *sigh*
    Man, I'm so depressed I could just cry.
    And then where would we be, I ask you?
    It's not pretty when a web server cries.
    And where do you get off telling me what to show anyway?
    Just because I'm a web server,
    and possibly a manic depressive one at that?
    Why does that give you the right to tell me what to do?_

    and it appears to continue indefinitely

    --

    There is much cruelty in the universe, John.
    Yeah, we seem to have the tour map.

  4. Re:Not surprising... by Mignon · · Score: 5, Funny
    I was taking a drive with my girlfriend's father, talking about computers, and I mentioned that I dont run windows ... He sat there with a blank look on his face.

    I, personally, push mine hard enough to crash freebsd from time to time.

    From your description, it sounds like you pushed your girlfriend's father hard enough to crash his O/S too.