Microsoft Makes Xbox a Set-Top.
Multichannel News, January, 2007 by Spangler, Todd
By Todd Spangler Las Vegas-- It's a game console! No, it's a TV set-top box! Listen up, kids: Microsoft has morphed the Xbox 360 into both. During Bill Gates' leadoff keynote at the International Consumer Electronics Show here last week, Microsoft executives demonstrated the Xbox 360 video-game machine running its Internet-protocol TV software for service providers.
"It just made a lot of sense to do it, to combine these two platforms we had in different parts of the company," Shari Barnett, director of media services in Microsoft's TV software division, said in an interview. IPTV on Xbox, code-named Project Carbon, will provide both TV and video games in one unit, as well as combine elements of the two. Barnett touted the combo as an...
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