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Microsoft Volume II
Acquired
The Vision of the Information Superhighway
The concept of the information superhighway was envisioned as a transition from walled garden online services to a more utopian networked consumer culture. The idea was to integrate interactive television services mediated by cable and satellite companies to leverage existing infrastructure, devices, and content, rather than introducing completely new technologies. Microsoft aimed to partner with these consumer technology companies to develop software for set-top boxes and servers, while Silicon Graphics was involved in manufacturing the necessary hardware for this vision of the information superhighway.
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