Microsoft is upgrading IPTV software for service providers, but flashy, consumer-oriented features will take more time to roll out. Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-Microsoft thinks the TV is about ready for software. Granted, Microsoft has been thinking that for more than a decade. But there's some reason to think that this time the folks ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Microsoft Corp. announced plans to extend its IPTV software with links to home PCs as well as digital terrestrial TV networks, renaming its offering Microsoft Mediaroom. The upgrade ...

Two of the set-top makers -- Cisco Systems and Motorola -- said AT&T will deploy their devices. Philips and Tatung Co. also said their set-top boxes will operate the Microsoft IPTV Edition. Last month ...

Several big telecommunications operators and, in particular, the world’s largest software maker, Microsoft, hope to sway many couch potatoes to zap their old-fashioned notions about television and ...

Recent speculation about problems with Microsoft's new Internet Protocol television software could give Siemens, the German telecommunications equipment giant, just the opportunity it's looking for to ...

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — Sept. 9, 2005 — Today at IBC2005, the International Broadcasters Convention, in a milestone for the industry’s move toward Internet Protocol television (IPTV) readiness, ...