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Ericsson Buys Microsoft's IPTV Software Platform
So Microsoft Can Focus Solely on the Xbox

Ericsson has announced that the company will be buying Microsoft's Mediaroom IPTV platform, which powers the TV efforts of numerous companies including AT&T U-Verse. According to Ericsson the deal should close during the latter half of 2013, and the acquisition nets Ericsson more than 25% of the IPTV platform market. In a blog post, Microsoft proclaims that the deal " allows Microsoft to commit 100 percent of its focus on consumer TV strategy with Xbox" (and of course stop lending competitors a hand). The company's next Xbox is expected to be announced in May and launched in November, and is rumored to come in two flavors -- one being a less expensive version that solely focuses on streaming video.

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OSUGoose
join:2007-12-27
Columbus, OH

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Thats Just

Stupid, IPTV is the future and you just sold away it.

This will come back to bite them in the rear.
TBBroadband
join:2012-10-26
Fremont, OH

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Re: Thats Just

they sold the platform. The xBox was already in use as a STB by many carriers and could still be used as such.

Guspaz
Guspaz
MVM
join:2001-11-05
Montreal, QC

Guspaz

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Already used by incumbent carriers

It's not like Mediaroom wasn't a big success... It's already used by Bell Canada, Telefonica, I think China Telecom uses it too?
dagg
join:2001-03-25
Galt, CA

dagg

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who's running the ship???

wow.
its almost like they are trying as hard as they can to completely demolish the entire company on purpose

dnoyeB
Ferrous Phallus
join:2000-10-09
Southfield, MI

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xbox?

xbox has game written all over it. There is a large segment of the population that will never touch an xbox just due to that. Perhaps they can relabel it for sale to other folks.