MSN TV, the Glossary
MSN TV (formerly WebTV) was a web access product consisting of a thin client device that used a television for display (instead of using a computer monitor), and the online service that supported it.[1]
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Ammunition
Ammunition is the material fired, scattered, dropped, or detonated from any weapon or weapon system.
Android (operating system)
Android is a mobile operating system based on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open-source software, designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.
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Andy Rubin
Andrew E. Rubin (born March 13, 1963) is an American computer programmer, entrepreneur, and venture capitalist.
AOL
AOL (stylized as Aol., formerly a company known as AOL Inc. and originally known as America Online) is an American web portal and online service provider based in New York City, and a brand marketed by Yahoo! Inc. The service traces its history to an online service known as PlayNET.
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AOL TV
AOL TV was the name of both a thin client which uses a television for display (rather than a monitor), and the online service that supports it, both of which were launched in June 2000 to compete with WebTV. MSN TV and AOL TV are interactive television and Streaming television.
Apple Inc.
Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, in Silicon Valley.
Atari
Atari is a brand name that has been owned by several entities since its inception in 1972.
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Beatnik (company)
Beatnik, Inc., founded as Headspace, Inc., was a company that specialized in interactive audio technology.
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Bill Gates
William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate best known for co-founding the software company Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen.
BIOS
In computing, BIOS (Basic Input/Output System, also known as the System BIOS, ROM BIOS, BIOS ROM or PC BIOS) is firmware used to provide runtime services for operating systems and programs and to perform hardware initialization during the booting process (power-on startup).
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BMW
Bayerische Motoren Werke AG, commonly abbreviated to BMW, is a German multinational manufacturer of luxury vehicles and motorcycles headquartered in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
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Brentwood Associates
Brentwood Associates is a private equity firm in the US with groups focusing on leveraged buyout.
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Bruce Leak
Bruce Leak is an American inventor and entrepreneur, and currently a co-founder at Playground Global.
Business incubator
A business incubator is an organization that helps startup companies and individual entrepreneurs to develop their businesses by providing a fullscale range of services, starting with management training and office space, and ending with venture capital financing.
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Campbell Soup Company
The Campbell Soup Company, doing business as Campbell's, is an American company, most closely associated with its flagship canned soup products; however through mergers and acquisitions, it has grown to become one of the largest processed food companies in the United States with a wide variety of products under its flagship Campbell's brand as well as other brands including Pepperidge Farm, Snyder's of Hanover, V8, and Swanson.
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Celeron
Celeron is a discontinued series of low-end IA-32 and x86-64 computer microprocessor models targeted at low-cost personal computers, manufactured by Intel.
Central processing unit
A central processing unit (CPU), also called a central processor, main processor, or just processor, is the most important processor in a given computer.
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Challenge–response authentication
In computer security, challenge-response authentication is a family of protocols in which one party presents a question ("challenge") and another party must provide a valid answer ("response") to be authenticated.
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Citigroup
Citigroup Inc. or Citi (stylized as citi) is an American multinational investment bank and financial services company in New York City.
CompactFlash
CompactFlash (CF) is a flash memory mass storage device used mainly in portable electronic devices.
Computer monitor
A computer monitor is an output device that displays information in pictorial or textual form.
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Danger, Inc.
Danger, Inc. was a company specializing in hardware design, software, and services for mobile computing devices.
Daylight saving time
Daylight saving time (DST), also referred to as daylight saving(s), daylight savings time, daylight time (United States and Canada), or summer time (United Kingdom, European Union, and others), is the practice of advancing clocks to make better use of the longer daylight available during summer so that darkness falls at a later clock time.
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Dial-up Internet access
Dial-up Internet access is a form of Internet access that uses the facilities of the public switched telephone network (PSTN) to establish a connection to an Internet service provider (ISP) by dialing a telephone number on a conventional telephone line.
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Digital video recorder
A digital video recorder (DVR), also referred to as a personal video recorder (PVR) particularly in Canada and British English, is an electronic device that records video in a digital format to a disk drive, USB flash drive, SD memory card, SSD or other local or networked mass storage device. MSN TV and digital video recorder are set-top box.
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Digital-to-analog converter
In electronics, a digital-to-analog converter (DAC, D/A, D2A, or D-to-A) is a system that converts a digital signal into an analog signal.
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DirecTV
DirecTV, LLC (trademarked as DIRECTV) is an American multichannel video programming distributor based in El Segundo, California.
Dish Network
DISH Network L.L.C. (an acronym for "Digital Sky Highway"), a subsidiary of EchoStar, provides multichannel television and satellite television via DISH Network, mobile phone service via DISH Wireless (Boost Mobile), as well as over-the-top IPTV services via Sling TV.
Diskless node
A diskless node (or diskless workstation) is a workstation or personal computer without disk drives, which employs network booting to load its operating system from a server.
Domestic rabbit
The domestic rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus domesticus) is the domesticated form of the European rabbit, a member of the lagomorph order.
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Doom (1993 video game)
Doom is a first-person shooter game developed and published by id Software.
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DR-WebSpyder
DR-WebSpyder is a DOS web browser, mail client and operating system runtime environment that was developed by Caldera UK in 1997.
Dreamcast
The is the final home video game console manufactured by Sega.
Dwarf rabbit
Dwarf rabbit refers either (formally) to a rabbit with the dwarfing gene, or (informally) to any small breed of domestic rabbit or specimen thereof, or (colloquially) to any small rabbit.
EchoStar
EchoStar Corporation is an American company providing satellite communication and Internet services.
Electronic mail (email or e-mail) is a method of transmitting and receiving messages using electronic devices.
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Evolution-Data Optimized
Evolution-Data Optimized (EV-DO, EVDO, etc.) is a telecommunications standard for the wireless transmission of data through radio signals, typically for broadband Internet access.
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Export of cryptography from the United States
The export of cryptography from the United States to other countries has experienced various levels of restrictions over time.
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Federal government of the United States
The federal government of the United States (U.S. federal government or U.S. government) is the national government of the United States, a federal republic located primarily in North America, composed of 50 states, five major self-governing territories, several island possessions, and the federal district/national capital of Washington, D.C., where most of the federal government is based.
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Firmware
In computing, firmware is software that provides low-level control of computing device hardware.
Fujitsu
is a Japanese multinational information and communications technology equipment and services corporation, established in 1935 and headquartered in Kawasaki, Kanagawa.
General Magic
General Magic was an American software and electronics company co-founded by Bill Atkinson, Andy Hertzfeld, and Marc Porat.
Google TV (operating system)
Google TV was a smart TV operating system from Google co-developed by Intel, Sony and Logitech. MSN TV and Google TV (operating system) are interactive television.
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Hard disk drive
A hard disk drive (HDD), hard disk, hard drive, or fixed disk is an electro-mechanical data storage device that stores and retrieves digital data using magnetic storage with one or more rigid rapidly rotating platters coated with magnetic material.
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HTTP
HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) is an application layer protocol in the Internet protocol suite model for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems.
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In-joke
An in-joke, also known as an inside joke or a private joke, is a joke with humour that is understandable only to members of an ingroup; that is, people who are in a particular social group, occupation, or other community of shared interest.
Integrated Device Technology
Integrated Device Technology, Inc. (IDT), was an American semiconductor company headquartered in San Jose, California.
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Interactive television
Interactive television is a form of media convergence, adding data services to traditional television technology.
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Internet
The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices.
Internet access
Internet access is a facility or service that provides connectivity for a computer, a computer network, or other network device to the Internet, and for individuals or organizations to access or use applications such as email and the World Wide Web.
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Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer (formerly Microsoft Internet Explorer and Windows Internet Explorer, commonly abbreviated as IE or MSIE) is a retired series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft that were used in the Windows line of operating systems.
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Internet Explorer 2
Microsoft Internet Explorer 2 (IE2) is the second, and by now discontinued, version of Internet Explorer (IE), a graphical web browser by Microsoft.
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Intranet
An intranet is a computer network for sharing information, easier communication, collaboration tools, operational systems, and other computing services within an organization, usually to the exclusion of access by outsiders.
IRC
IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is a text-based chat system for instant messaging.
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JFE Holdings
is a corporation headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
JPEG
JPEG (short for Joint Photographic Experts Group) is a commonly used method of lossy compression for digital images, particularly for those images produced by digital photography.
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Kilobit
The kilobit is a multiple of the unit bit for digital information or computer storage.
Las Vegas
Las Vegas, often known as Sin City or simply Vegas, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada and the seat of Clark County.
Linux
Linux is both an open-source Unix-like kernel and a generic name for a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds.
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Magnavox
Magnavox (Latin for "great voice", stylized as MAGNAVOX or sometimes Magnavox in Australia) was an American electronics company.
Marvin Davis
Marvin H. Davis (August 31, 1925 – September 25, 2004) was an American industrialist.
Mediaroom is a collection of software for operators to deliver IPTV (IPTV) subscription services, including content-protected, live, digital video recorder, video on demand, multiscreen, and applications. MSN TV and Mediaroom are Streaming television.
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington.
Microsoft Office
Microsoft Office, or simply Office, is a family of client software, server software, and services developed by Microsoft.
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Microsoft Venus
Microsoft Venus was an aborted venture by Microsoft into the low-end personal computing market in the People's Republic of China. MSN TV and Microsoft Venus are set-top box.
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Microsoft Word
Microsoft Word is a word processor developed by Microsoft.
MIDI
MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a technical standard that describes a communication protocol, digital interface, and electrical connectors that connect a wide variety of electronic musical instruments, computers, and related audio devices for playing, editing, and recording music.
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MIPS architecture
MIPS (Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipelined Stages) is a family of reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architectures (ISA)Price, Charles (September 1995).
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Mitsubishi
The is a group of autonomous Japanese multinational companies in a variety of industries.
Modem
A modulator-demodulator or most commonly referred to as modem is a computer hardware device that converts data from a digital format into a format suitable for an analog transmission medium such as telephone or radio.
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MSN
MSN (meaning Microsoft Network) is an American web portal and related collection of Internet services and apps for Windows and mobile devices, provided by Microsoft and launched on August 24, 1995, alongside the release of Windows 95.
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MSN Chat
MSN Chat was the Microsoft Network version of IRCX (Internet Relay Chat extensions by Microsoft), which replaced Microsoft Chat, a set of Exchange-based IRCX servers first available in the Microsoft Comic Chat client, although Comic Chat was not required to connect. MSN TV and MSN Chat are MSN.
MSN Messenger
MSN Messenger (also known colloquially simply as MSN), later rebranded as Windows Live Messenger, was a cross-platform instant-messaging client developed by Microsoft. MSN TV and MSN Messenger are MSN and products and services discontinued in 2013.
Museum of American Heritage
The Museum of American Heritage (MOAH) is a museum in Palo Alto, California.
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National Association of Broadcasters
The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) is a trade association and lobby group representing the interests of commercial and non-commercial over-the-air radio and television broadcasters in the United States.
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Netscape Navigator
Netscape Navigator is a discontinued web browser, and the original browser of the Netscape line, from versions 1 to 4.08, and 9.x. It was the flagship product of the Netscape Communications Corp and was the dominant web browser in terms of usage share in the 1990s, but by around 2003 its user base had all but disappeared.
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Non-volatile memory
Non-volatile memory (NVM) or non-volatile storage is a type of computer memory that can retain stored information even after power is removed.
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Online service provider
An online service provider (OSP) can, for example, be an Internet service provider, an email provider, a news provider (press), an entertainment provider (music, movies), a search engine, an e-commerce site, an online banking site, a health site, an official government site, social media, a wiki, or a Usenet newsgroup.
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Operating system
An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources, and provides common services for computer programs.
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Oracle Solaris
Solaris is a proprietary Unix operating system originally developed by Sun Microsystems.
Outlook.com
Outlook.com, formerly Hotmail, is a free personal email service offered by Microsoft. MSN TV and Outlook.com are internet properties established in 1996.
Palo Alto, California
Palo Alto (Spanish for) is a charter city in the northwestern corner of Santa Clara County, California, United States, in the San Francisco Bay Area, named after a coastal redwood tree known as El Palo Alto.
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Panasonic
is a Japanese multinational electronics company, headquartered in Kadoma, Osaka, Japan.
Patience (game)
Patience (Europe), card solitaire or solitaire (US/Canada), is a genre of card games whose common feature is that the aim is to arrange the cards in some systematic order or, in a few cases, to pair them off in order to discard them.
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Paul Allen
Paul Gardner Allen (January 21, 1953 – October 15, 2018) was an American businessman, computer programmer, researcher, film producer, explorer, sports executive, investor and philanthropist.
Phil Goldman
Phillip York Goldman (July 17, 1964 – December 26, 2003) was an American software engineer and entrepreneur.
Philips
Koninklijke Philips N.V., commonly shortened to Philips, is a Dutch multinational conglomerate corporation that was founded in Eindhoven in 1891.
Picture-in-picture
Picture-in-picture (PiP) is a feature that can be found in television receivers, personal computers, and smartphones.
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Proxy server
In computer networking, a proxy server is a server application that acts as an intermediary between a client requesting a resource and the server providing that resource.
R4600
The R4600, code-named "Orion", is a microprocessor developed by Quantum Effect Design (QED) that implemented the MIPS III instruction set architecture (ISA).
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Random-access memory
Random-access memory (RAM) is a form of electronic computer memory that can be read and changed in any order, typically used to store working data and machine code.
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RC4
In cryptography, RC4 (Rivest Cipher 4, also known as ARC4 or ARCFOUR, meaning Alleged RC4, see below) is a stream cipher.
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RCA
The RCA Corporation was a major American electronics company, which was founded in 1919 as the Radio Corporation of America.
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Read-only memory
Read-only memory (ROM) is a type of non-volatile memory used in computers and other electronic devices.
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Reduced instruction set computer
In electronics and computer science, a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) is a computer architecture designed to simplify the individual instructions given to the computer to accomplish tasks.
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Samsung
Samsung Group (stylised as SΛMSUNG) is a South Korean multinational manufacturing conglomerate headquartered in Samsung Digital City, Suwon, South Korea.
Seagate Technology
Seagate Technology Holdings plc is an American data storage company.
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Session key
A session key is a single-use symmetric key used for encrypting all messages in one communication session.
Set-top box
A set-top box (STB), also known as a cable box, receiver, or simply box, and historically television decoder or a converter, is an information appliance device that generally contains a TV tuner input and displays output to a television set, turning the source signal into content in a form that can then be displayed on the television screen or other display device.
Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley is a region in Northern California that is a global center for high technology and innovation.
Sleep deprivation
Sleep deprivation, also known as sleep insufficiency or sleeplessness, is the condition of not having adequate duration and/or quality of sleep to support decent alertness, performance, and health.
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Smart card
A smart card (SC), chip card, or integrated circuit card (ICC or IC card), is a card used to control access to a resource.
Smart TV
A smart TV, also known as a connected TV (CTV), is a traditional television set with integrated Internet and interactive Web 2.0 features that allow users to stream music and videos, browse the internet, and view photos. MSN TV and smart TV are interactive television and Streaming television.
Sony
, formerly known as and, commonly known as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan.
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Stanford University
Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University) is a private research university in Stanford, California.
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Steve Perlman (entrepreneur)
Stephen G. "Steve" Perlman is an entrepreneur and inventor of Internet, entertainment, multimedia, consumer electronics and communications technologies and services.
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Subsidiary
A subsidiary, subsidiary company or daughter company is a company owned or controlled by another company, which is called the parent company or holding company, which has legal and financial control over the company.
Sunk cost
In economics and business decision-making, a sunk cost (also known as retrospective cost) is a cost that has already been incurred and cannot be recovered.
Super VGA
Super VGA (SVGA) is a broad term that covers a wide range of computer display standards that extended IBM's VGA specification.
Television
Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound.
Thin client
In computer networking, a thin client, sometimes called slim client or lean client, is a simple (low-performance) computer that has been optimized for establishing a remote connection with a server-based computing environment. MSN TV and thin client are thin clients.
Thomas Dolby
Thomas Morgan Robertson (born 14 October 1958), known by the stage name Thomas Dolby, is an English musician, producer, composer, entrepreneur and teacher.
Times Mirror Company
The Times Mirror Company was an American newspaper and print media publisher from 1884 until 2000.
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TiVo
TiVo is a digital video recorder (DVR) developed and marketed by Xperi (previously by TiVo Corporation and TiVo Inc.) and introduced in 1999. MSN TV and TiVo are interactive television.
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Vesting
In law, vesting is the point in time when the rights and interests arising from legal ownership of a property are acquired by some person.
Video Graphics Array
Video Graphics Array (VGA) is a video display controller and accompanying de facto graphics standard, first introduced with the IBM PS/2 line of computers in 1987, which became ubiquitous in the IBM PC compatible industry within three years.
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Web browser
A web browser is an application for accessing websites.
Windows Embedded Compact
Windows Embedded Compact, formerly Windows Embedded CE, Windows Powered and Windows CE, is a discontinued operating system developed by Microsoft for mobile and embedded devices.
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Xbox 360
The Xbox 360 is a home video game console developed by Microsoft.
911 (emergency telephone number)
911, sometimes written, is an emergency telephone number for Argentina, Canada, the Dominican Republic, Jordan, Mexico, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, the Philippines, Sint Maarten, the United States, and Uruguay, as well as the North American Numbering Plan (NANP), one of eight N11 codes.
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See also
MSN
- Encarta
- ILoo
- IRCX
- Kasparov versus the World
- List of services by MSN
- MSN
- MSN Chat
- MSN China
- MSN Dial-up
- MSN Games
- MSN Groups
- MSN Messenger
- MSN Music
- MSN QnA
- MSN TV
- MSN Video Player
- MSNBC
- Microsoft Comic Chat
- Microsoft Start
- Microsoft adCenter Labs
- Microsoft mobile services
- Microsoft pubCenter
- NBCNews.com
- Newsvine
- Nine.com.au
- Windows Live
- Windows Live Spaces
- Xinmsn
Set-top box
- ATSC tuner
- AV receiver
- Acorn Online Media Set Top Box
- AllVid
- Apple Interactive Television Box
- Cable converter box
- CableCARD
- Common Interface
- Conditional-access module
- Coupon-eligible converter box
- DOCSIS Set-top Gateway
- DTV receiver
- Digital television adapter
- Digital video recorder
- Dreambox
- Enigma (DVB)
- Eurovox
- FTA receiver
- Freebox
- Hard disk recorder
- Hopper (DVR)
- Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV
- Infomir
- Integrated digital television
- Integrated receiver/decoder
- Java TV
- LinuxTV
- MSN TV
- Microsoft Venus
- Motorola DCT2000
- Nano-ITX
- Nexus Player
- Nvidia Shield TV
- Over-the-top media service
- Over-the-top media services in India
- PlayTV
- Set-back box
- Set-top box
- Slingbox
- TV tuner card
- Three-way hybrid
- Tuner (radio)
- Unibox
- V+
- VBox Home TV Gateway
- Vu+
- Whole-home DVR
- 311 (telephone number)
- Area code 250
- Area code 320
- Area code 352
- Area code 941
- Area codes 214, 469, 972, and 945
- Area codes 330 and 234
- Area codes 573 and 235
- Area codes 630 and 331
- Area codes 713, 281, 832, and 346
- Area codes 847 and 224
- Area codes 937 and 326
- Data Radio Channel
- Family Radio Service
- FoxTrax
- MSN TV
- Ringtone
Thin clients
- Azure Virtual Desktop
- Blade PC
- Blit (computer terminal)
- Chip PC Technologies
- ClearCube
- Cloud clients
- Dell FX100
- Desktop virtualization
- DisplayLink
- DoD Secure Kiosk
- Esprit Systems
- ICON (microcomputer)
- IGEL Technology
- Jack PC
- LISCON
- Linux Terminal Server Project
- MSN TV
- Mini PC
- NComputing
- Ndiyo
- Network Computing Devices
- PocketVNC
- Rdesktop
- Remote Graphics Software
- Remote mobile virtualization
- Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments
- Sun Ray
- Teradici
- Thin client
- ThinCan
- VDIworks
- VideoOverIP
- VirtualGL
- Wyse
- X terminal
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSN_TV
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