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Microsoft Says Goodbye To WebTV/MSN TV

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the so-long dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft has just notified both subscribers of MSN TV that the service would be ending at the end of September (FAQ for subscribers here). The service, which delivered Internet access to a TV screen via a set top box, was the evolution of WebTV Networks launched by Steve Perlman and others during the initial Web boom in the mid '90s. Microsoft bought the company for $503 million in 1997, when Bill Gates was still CEO."

2 of 92 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Open Source too by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Naturally, a properly commercially developed and backwards compatible operating system works with your older hardware. Probably had the drivers built in. Linux on the other hand, a fucking putrid disaster on the desktop.

    Disclosure: I pirate all of my Windows, so they're free. I run linux on more devices in my home than I run Windows (phones, routers, other embedded devices, etc.).

  2. Re:I owned MSN TV by CohibaVancouver · · Score: -1, Troll

    I owned MSN TV and it was one of the best services of all time. So long, you will be missed...

    Poor bastard - Modded to -1 simply for saying he liked something that does not have Slashdot GroupThink approval.

    [Sits quietly and waits for mod-down to 'troll']