Microsoft Adds NDS to 'Thin-Client' Push.(to license NDS Group middleware)
Multichannel News, March, 2000 by DONOHUE, STEVE
Expanding its new thin-client strategy, Microsoft Corp. cut a deal with NDS Group plc last week to license the company's middleware solution in order to deliver the "Microsoft TV" platform to homes with low-end digital set-tops. The agreement came the week after Microsoft acquired Peach Networks Ltd, an interactive-television vendor that targets cable operators that have deployed basic digital set-tops.
"We expect [the Microsoft-NDS] solution to be a major step forward in the evolution of enhanced television," said Phil Goldman, general manager of Microsoft's TV Platform Group. Microsoft plans to license the NDS middleware and to offer that company's solution to cable operators that agree to deploy the Microsoft operating platform. The software...
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