From the desktop to the TV, Microsoft chases the dream of IPTV.

These days, the industry is enthusiastically and tirelessly discussing when Microsoft's next-generation operating system, Vista, will be launched and how secure it really is. Perhaps, another strategic move by Microsoft—its strategy to build an IPTV platform—has not yet received enough attention. Still focusing on software, Microsoft is using software as its entry point to transition from the desktop to the television, carrying with it the new dreams of the software empire. Ambitiously, it is constructing yet another, even larger empire...