Microsoft, AOL Shortchange Programmers.(both companies represented at Cable and Telecommunications Association for Marketing Summit)(Brief Article)

Multichannel News, August, 2001 by Leddy, Craig

Two major rivals, AOL Time Warner Inc. and Microsoft Corp., are wooing potential partners in the cable industry and offering new visions of the broadband future. A top executive from each company -- America Online chairman and CEO Barry Schuler and Microsoft president and chief operating officer Rick Belluzzo -- made their respective pitches at last month's Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing Summit in San Francisco.

Their presentations encompassed just about everything that's right -- and wrong -- about the current thinking in broadband. The two executives appeared at CTAM shortly after their companies abandoned discussions over a personal computer software partnership. Neither executive directly addressed their rival's plans,...

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