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Gates: 'Digital Decade Is Here' Posted by HSDEMONZ | February 18 11:06 EST

From money.cnn.com: [QUOTE] Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) chairman Bill Gates unveiled a slew of new products and content partners Sunday in his keynote address kicking off the 2007 International Consumer Electronics Show, vowing to deliver access to video and data no matter where the consumer might be. "It's a dream if you're a sports fan or there's a sports fan in your house," said Robbie Bach, president of Microsoft's entertainment and devices division and the company's chief liaison to Hollywood. Bach and Gates alternated introducing new products during Microsoft's CES presentation. In addition, Microsoft said that it has signed Lionsgate (NYSE:LGF) to its roster of programming contributors to Xbox 360 Live Marketplace, joining Paramount and Warner Bros. Bach hailed the addition of a library of video content to Xbox Live that either can be streamed or downloaded, noting that 100 million downloads of games, TV episodes and movies have been generated over the past 13 months; he did not offer a separate account of how video alone has fared since Microsoft signed content partners including ABC, Comedy Central and the CW as of Nov. 22. Xbox 360 also will provide an IPTV service that can deliver video programming, essentially functioning as a set-top box. Although that doesn't put Microsoft in the video distribution business, it opens up the possibility that the company could partner with AT&T (NYSE:SBT) (NYSE:T) to offer a mix of voice, video, data and wireless. Microsoft already provides software for AT&T's IP-based rollout, raising the specter that the telco's current U.S. service, U-Verse, could eventually be bundled with Xbox 360. IPTV video has DVR and video-on-demand functionality and also will enable seamless switching between video programming and games, and even blur the two, demonstrating functionality that allowed a community of users to talk to their Xbox even while its in TV mode. [/QUOTE] Full Story.. News-Source: money.cnn.com

[bucko]

Gates: 'Digital Decade Is Here'

But it's 2007, not far of the end of the Decade.

Maybe I'm just dumb founded, yes/no

This post has been edited by bucko: Feb 18 2007, 06:07 PM

[carllfo]

When isn't it the digital decade if all you sell are digital products?
Perhaps it's a special Microsoft decade, makes marketing claims much easier...

Oh, and you might want to check the use of dumb founded (should be dumbfounded), makes it sound like you were found to be dumb

This post has been edited by carllfo: Feb 18 2007, 06:39 PM

[skx]

English is not my native Language, can anybody help me if he has actually said that IPTV is coming this year in Nov. ?

A little bit late =(

[sabbath_dude]

No launch dates for IPTV are given.

[kohaar]

vowing to deliver access to video and data no matter where the consumer might be.

Maybe we can get more live content than trials and demoes in Denmark. Would be great

[Arvarden]

Good God, its taken MS how long to recognize the potential of digital media?