LORTAP: Re: Imagine for one moment if microsoft was reliant on NVEI to produce their "technology" and that they were basing the future of their broadband roll-out on the completion of this working technology.
The part that MWL, GrooveMaster, and others seem to fail to understand is that Microsoft has no "broadband roll-out". Microsoft is not a broadband company. They are a *SOFTWARE* company. Regarding the SBC deal, SBC chose Microsoft to provide *SOFTWARE* for the SBC broadband rollout. Microsoft did not choose SBC, or their broadband technology. Furthermore, Microsoft could care less what SBC's particular boradband technology might be. They are not, nor are they ever likely to become, a communications chipset company. Any speculation to the contrary is completely baseless, and frankly a bit ridiculous.
If you ponder this for more than a moment, what do you think you would do if you were bill gates?
Would you sink...
Bill Gates is not going to sink anything into anything NVEI does. As I said before, they are a *SOFTWARE* company. They do not produce silicon. Never have, never will.
Microsoft's involvement with NVEI was completely limited to their efforts to find a film that was suitable for demonstration of their Windows Media 9 *SOFTWARE*. They selected a rather cool, somewhat obscure film that had a great deal of visual impact, the rights to which could be had cheaply. That's all. Nothing else.
We might as well be speculating about how much we think General Motors, or Proctor and Gamble, or 3M, for that matter, would be willing to invest in NVEI.
Market Data 
Markets 
AI
