Microsoft Corp.'s interactive television software will be headed for a million Charter Communications Inc. customer homes, in a deal that bolster's Microsoft's press into American living rooms.
The move, announced Wednesday, may be a lift for Microsoft in the fledgling but burgeoning interactive TV software market where the software giant has had some setbacks, including rival Liberate Technologies announcing this summer its deal to develop an interactive TV delivery system with an AT&T subsidiary.
Earlier this year, AT&T - the nation's largest cable television provider - dealt what was seen as a blow to Microsoft, which has invested $5 billion in the cable giant. AT&T tabled plans to deploy advanced Microsoft-enabled cable boxes, instead saying it would expand TV features for existing DCT-2000 set-top boxes made by Motorola Corp.
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