During the briefing TCI announced it formed a joint venture with Intuit and Bank of America to offer consumer financial services to TCI digital cable subscribers. As part of the deal, the venture will pay TCI a one-time fee for each interactive TV subscriber that receives access. Malone also used his speaking time to take a few shots at Microsoft. TCI, which hyped a deal in December to use Windows CE as the operating system for at least 5 million of the digital set-tops it deploys, now appears to be distancing itself from the software behemoth. OpenCable is a downloadable standard, allowing us to change our minds about the operating system even after it is deployed.
Nothing is over until it's over.
If TCI selected one of these RTOS options, Malone said PersonalJava middleware could be used as an application environment for Internet services. Kinetic Strategies Inc. All Rights Reserved.