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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedMicrosoft set-top moves 'concern' Hatch.(Brief Article)
Broadcasting & Cable, July, 1998 by Albiniak, Paige
It's not just Microsoft's dominance in the operating system business that concerns Senate. Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah); he also worries that the Redmond, Wash.-based software provider is trying to control internet access via cable lines.
"Microsoft's dominance of the set-top box market is a matter of great concern to me," Hatch said last week during a Senate Antitrust Subcommittee hearing on convergence In the entertainment and telecommunications industries.
AT&T Chairman C. Michael Armstrong and Time Warner President Richard Parsons each told Hatch that they shared his concern about Microsoft's moves into cable and would work to ensure that the software company does not control the set-top box market. Armstrong is completing a...
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