A high-profile announcement of UltimateTV and a host of other initiatives show that Microsoft is taking enhanced TV seriously as a potential future revenue stream
Use of "XP", an abbreviation for "experience", signals MS's interest in appealing to the consumer market as it reintegrates its consumer & professional OS into a single code base
A settlement in the lengthy dispute will have little effect on Microsoft and may put another nail in the coffin for Java as a platform for creating interactive Web pages