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POPSSteve Jobs Was Right: Google IS Turning Into Microsoft The Kansas City Fiber experiment is like Microsoft's huge cable investments in the 1990s Google has rolled out a fiber optic network in Kansas City and is reportedly planning on delivering TV directly over the Internet to those homes. The Motorola deal could also play a part, as Motorola makes cable TV set top boxes. Few remember now, but Microsoft once made a big play for the TV space as well. The company invested billions in cable companies in the late 1990s -- including Comcast ($1 billion) and AT&T ($5 billion) -- plus more in Japan and Europe. The hope was to get Microsoft software embedded in TV set top boxes. The effort did not work, and Microsoft ended up having to write down billions from those investments. Read more: by Matt Rosoff http://read.bi/sx8oqF http://www.businessinsider.com
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