IPTV – And so with Vista comes the dream of IPTV. I wrote awhile back that I was ‘suped’ up over getting a Vista Media Centre PC with the hope that it would lunch in Fall’06, but it’s old news in the industry that the Vista launch has been delayed to the first quarter of 2007.
That being said, Telcos around the world are gearing up for the launch of the next generation television service based on Microsoft’s IPTV edition platform. In fact, AT&T has already commercially launched an IPTV service using Microsoft’s platform, marketed as ‘u-verse’.
And so I wait for Vista to launch. Over the weekend I watched a biography on Bill Gates on the tube. What a smart and resilient man Mr. Gates is.