webtvwire.com— The internet and the television are slowly becoming one and Microsoft could see itself slowly squeezed out of the picture if another company can master the TV-internet-PC convergence?
Apr 25, 2007View in Crawl 4
@deabyss:I stand by my position. If Netscape had 75% of the market share, and it lost almost all of it to IE, then Netscapemust have not been quite the amazing app you claim it to be for it to lose so much market share. If people were contentwith IE, and used IE instead of Netscape, then clearly Netscape did a poor job pushing its advantages over IE.Maybe you should pull up witnesses that testified FOR MS in their anti-trust suit. Witnesses like that aren't exactlygood references to prove your point. Show me unbiased (well, as unbiased as can be reasoned), third party reporting.JVC rendered Sony's Betamax ineffective! Lame argument.And what's wrong with a company wanting to sever contractual ties when the contract partnerdecides to sleep with the competition? If, during Britney Spears Pepsi promoting days, was constantlyphotographed drinking Coke, would Pepsi be abusing anyone by canceling their contract with Spears? I saythey would be stupid to NOT end the contract. Just because Dell, et al NEEDED MS's contract doesn't meanits MS's fault.
The PC-TV convergence has already been mastered. It's called Bittorrent.Microsoft, your foul dream (nightmare to the rest of us) to rule the media has failed!
Convergence is just a matter of time.Just because it was mentioned ten years ago, doesn't diminish its inevitability.The concept of the strict PC is diminishing.
Interesting that MS would lose its stronghold due to changes in the living room, when they've made more forays into that arena of the digital home than almost any other company. The 360, Media Centers, etc. Not to mention that Vista is the ONLY OS out there with CableCARD support, allowing the Media Center PC to take the place of a digital cable/satellite box... and somehow they'll lose to a PS3... riiiight.
Closed AccountApr 26, 2007
a dvr/tv will never replace computers. ever.
mattymApr 26, 2007
@deabyss:I stand by my position. If Netscape had 75% of the market share, and it lost almost all of it to IE, then Netscapemust have not been quite the amazing app you claim it to be for it to lose so much market share. If people were contentwith IE, and used IE instead of Netscape, then clearly Netscape did a poor job pushing its advantages over IE.Maybe you should pull up witnesses that testified FOR MS in their anti-trust suit. Witnesses like that aren't exactlygood references to prove your point. Show me unbiased (well, as unbiased as can be reasoned), third party reporting.JVC rendered Sony's Betamax ineffective! Lame argument.And what's wrong with a company wanting to sever contractual ties when the contract partnerdecides to sleep with the competition? If, during Britney Spears Pepsi promoting days, was constantlyphotographed drinking Coke, would Pepsi be abusing anyone by canceling their contract with Spears? I saythey would be stupid to NOT end the contract. Just because Dell, et al NEEDED MS's contract doesn't meanits MS's fault.
wafer67Apr 26, 2007
360 is accomplishing much more then its given justice for, and once IPTV comes out for the 360 this article will have no meaning at all
obkenobiApr 27, 2007
The PC-TV convergence has already been mastered. It's called Bittorrent.Microsoft, your foul dream (nightmare to the rest of us) to rule the media has failed!
Closed AccountApr 27, 2007
one word, p0rn!
gerkinApr 27, 2007
I thought the whole PC + TV + Internet convergence happened back in the first dot com boom, and everyone agreed that it sucked and moved on :D
zhulienApr 27, 2007
yeah right, I'm gonna replace my 61" tv every few years... they better be pretty cheap then and WITHOUT DRM crap built in.
ebuntonApr 27, 2007
Convergence is just a matter of time.Just because it was mentioned ten years ago, doesn't diminish its inevitability.The concept of the strict PC is diminishing.
lanjackalApr 28, 2007
Interesting that MS would lose its stronghold due to changes in the living room, when they've made more forays into that arena of the digital home than almost any other company. The 360, Media Centers, etc. Not to mention that Vista is the ONLY OS out there with CableCARD support, allowing the Media Center PC to take the place of a digital cable/satellite box... and somehow they'll lose to a PS3... riiiight.
Closed AccountApr 30, 2007
Standard Oil was the winner too. Did Rockefeller give you a dime?