The interactive TV service began life in the mid-'90s as WebTV, one of the first set-top box services to offer Internet access via television sets. Steven Musil is a senior news editor at CNET News.

Consumer demand for interactive TV has yet to meet industry expectations, but that isn't stopping another hopeful from gambling on the ill-defined and elusive market. Steve Perlman, who founded WebTV, ...

Microsoft has renamed its struggling WebTV service MSN TV in a push to accelerate its integration with MSN's content and Internet services. WebTV offers television-based e-mail and Web-surfing ...

Microsoft has confirmed that it is getting out of the smart TV game, shuttering the long-running MSN TV service which predicted the rise of internet-connected set-top boxes but launched a decade or so ...

There are two kinds of Microsoft products that fail because of lousy timing. Some, such as the Zune, die because they arrive too late. But Microsoft is at least as likely to enter markets far too ...

During the 1990s, everyone wanted to surf the information super-highway — also known as the World Wide Web or just ‘Internet’ — but not everyone was interested in getting one of those newfangled ...

Boy, this Internet thing must be frustrating for marketing types. After more than five years in the white-hot glare of media attention – five years as the Next Big Thing – the goose still refuses to ...

REDMOND, Wash., July 18, 2001 — The MSN® network of Internet services, the worlds leading consumer network with over 230 million unique users, today announced the renaming of WebTV® Internet Service ...

WS.WebTV is an affordable and very complete solution. It is a platform that not only allows companies and individuals to have their own video portal (WebTV / VMS / Video CMS) but also, through ...