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Comcast Drops Microsoft

Posted by kdawson on from the blue-screen-of-television dept.

Frosty Piss writes "Comcast plans to drop Microsoft's television software and on-screen program guide from its digital cable boxes. The cable company will replace the Microsoft technology with GuideWorks software — Comcast is a part owner of GuideWorks. Comcast has been the lone cable company in the US using Microsoft technology for set-top boxes, and only in the state of Washington, Microsoft's back yard." The Microsoft offering has a solid presence in Latin America. The company is no longer trying very hard to market it here at home.

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  1. The Chemo Is Working by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now if we can just get MS software out of our ATMs and voting machines, the country might be safe to watch TV in again.

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  2. Good thing? by e2d2 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I was gonna say this is a good thing, but I dislike comcast so much that I actually wish more problems on them so I vote NAY.

    hate hate hate hate

  3. Microsoft has television software? by wumpus188 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I wonder what it shows when it's late and between channels...

  4. You are attempting to change the channel by Dancindan84 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Cancel or Allow?

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  5. Ballmer says Comcast violates 235 patents by IGnatius+T+Foobar · · Score: 3, Funny

    He won't say exactly what patents they are, but they probably include things like "Method and apparatus for sitting on your couch eating cheesy poofs while watching television" and "Method and apparatus for displaying television programs which contain blocks of programming separated by commercials."

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  6. Did they really drop it? by xlation · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yesterday my Comcast provided cable modem died. I stopped by the local office after work and exchanged it for a new one.

    It did not just plug-and-play with my router, I had to plug it directly into a computer first and run their configuration. So, I plugged it into my powerbook. I expected trouble when the Comcast website came up telling me I would have to download some software, but when I clicked the button, the file it downloaded was actually a mac file--wow.

    After unpacking the install program a warning message popped up telling me I needed to use Internet explorer to continue the configuration. It then installed IE 5.something, which promptly froze up and died.

  7. Re:Clues spotted at Comcast? by The+Great+Pretender · · Score: 2, Funny
    "you'd realize that the Comcast software is, without reservations, worse in every way that the Microsoft software"

    Oh my freakin' God, you're kidding me right! I'm a user of the Microsoft/Comcast thing now and it's horrible. Now you're telling me that we going to be subjected to worse?

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  8. Re:Clues spotted at Comcast? by ThePengwin · · Score: 2, Funny

    Cable?