You might think it should have happened sooner. This week, Microsoft announced it would decommission its MSN TV (formerly WebTV) service. Even I didn't think it would last this long, and I was WebTV's ...

During the 1990s, everyone wanted to surf the information super-highway — also known as the World Wide Web or just ‘Internet’ — but not everyone was interested in getting one of those newfangled ...

The interactive TV service began life in the mid-'90s as WebTV, one of the first set-top box services to offer Internet access via television sets. Steven Musil is a senior news editor at CNET News.

DURING the dot-com boom, people who didn’t want to miss out on the Web and e-mail craze but didn’t want to buy a real computer could get WebTV, which delivered the Internet through the warm, friendly ...

WebTV is on track despite some setbacks and slower-than-expected subscriber growth, according to new president Bruce Leak, who predicts that the company's enhanced television services will come online ...

Microsoft has confirmed that it is getting out of the smart TV game, shuttering the long-running MSN TV service which predicted the rise of internet-connected set-top boxes but launched a decade or so ...

Boy, this Internet thing must be frustrating for marketing types. After more than five years in the white-hot glare of media attention – five years as the Next Big Thing – the goose still refuses to ...

Boy, this Internet thing must be frustrating for marketing types. After more than five years in the white-hot glare of media attention – five years as the Next Big Thing – the goose still refuses to ...

There are two kinds of Microsoft products that fail because of lousy timing. Some, such as the Zune, die because they arrive too late. But Microsoft is at least as likely to enter markets far too ...

WS.WebTV is an affordable and very complete solution. It is a platform that not only allows companies and individuals to have their own video portal (WebTV / VMS / Video CMS) but also, through ...