Microsoft's idea for a smart home setup in 1999, posted in a retro video, got pretty close to the current smart home technology and devices, but it failed in some others as well, like a web phone.
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Microsoft has announced it will be shutting down its MSN TV service, which first started in 1995 as WebTV, on September 30th, finally bringing to an end the company's first Internet TV service.
In the late 1990s, I was the editor of a magazine for owners of WebTV, the Internet TV service from Microsoft. The experience was the equivalent of teaching an English class in the jungles of...
