Microsoft TV dealt blow Down Under

Iria · Jun 23, 2005, 01:19 AM

Australian telephone giant Telstra has canceled its field test of Microsoft Internet Protocol TV, another setback for the software giant's TV technology efforts.

Telstra had been in discussions with Microsoft to conduct a trial using the Microsoft TV IPTV set-top-box software but decided it was premature to move forward.

"We have decided not to do so at this time entirely for our own internal and local market reasons and not because of anything to do with Microsoft's product," Warwick Ponder, a Telstra spokesman, said in an e-mail statement.

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Jun 23, 2005, 01:19 AM	#1
Iria DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 7,275 Rep Power: 89	Microsoft TV dealt blow Down Under Australian telephone giant Telstra has canceled its field test of Microsoft Internet Protocol TV, another setback for the software giant's TV technology efforts. Telstra had been in discussions with Microsoft to conduct a trial using the Microsoft TV IPTV set-top-box software but decided it was premature to move forward. "We have decided not to do so at this time entirely for our own internal and local market reasons and not because of anything to do with Microsoft's product," Warwick Ponder, a Telstra spokesman, said in an e-mail statement. __________ Read More / Source: News.com