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It's not been a great few years for Ericsson (http://www.engadget.com/tag/Ericsson/), but the company is looking to cheer itself up by bidding for one of Microsoft's cast-offs. According to Bloomberg's usual cabal of persons familiar with the matter, the beleaguered networking giant is gunning for Redmond's MediaRoom IPTV (http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/04/telus-brings-iptv-to-canadian-xbox-360s/) Unit. As Microsoft's home entertainment ambitions now center around the Xbox, MediaRoom (http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/09/microsofts-mediaroom-2-0-running-on-the-xbox-360/), which powers AT&T's U-Verse (http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/17/atandt-u-verse-total-home-dvr-adds-pause-rewind-feature-on-multiro/), is deemed surplus to requirements. Spokespeople for both companies declined to comment, but we're left wondering whatever happened to Microsoft's grand plans (http://www.engadget.com/2012/11/06/microsoft-cloud-tv-job-listing/) for Project Orapa (http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/11/xbox-360-iptv-rumors-ride-again-with-project-orapa/) (sic).
Filed under: Home Entertainment (http://www.engadget.com/category/home-entertainment/), HD (http://www.engadget.com/category/hd/), Microsoft (http://www.engadget.com/category/microsoft/)
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Source: Bloomberg (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-27/ericsson-said-to-discuss-buying-tv-software-unit-from-microsoft.html)
Via: Engadget