A pickup in consumer PC sales and the recognition of deferred revenue from a Windows 7 upgrade program helped Microsoft show record revenues (US$19.02 billion) and profits (US$6.66 billion) in the second quarter of its 2010 fiscal year, which ended Dec. 31, 2009.
All customers deploying Office 2010, including those with Volume License Agreements, will have to activate the product.
A lawsuit filed by Microsoft in Jan. 2010 alleges that TiVo infringes two Microsoft patents related to displaying program guide information and to purchasing and delivering video (patent numbers 6,008,803 and 6,055,314).
Mediaroom 2.0, a forthcoming update to Microsoft's Internet Protocol television (IPTV) platform, will let operators deliver Mediaroom content, such as TV broadcasts and video-on-demand, over unmanaged IP networks, allowing users to access this programming with a Web browser on a PC or mobile device.