By Graham Hayday, 3 December 2001 08:20
NEWS United Pan-European Communications (UPC) has ditched Microsoft as the supplier of software to its set-top boxes. The Dutch cable TV outfit and Microsoft have been working together for three years but UPC is thought to have become frustrated with delays to the project caused by the software giant. Rumours that the relationship was going awry first surfaced last April, but today's news is thought to be the end of the road. Microsoft claims it met all of UPC's test criteria. But a source close to UPC told today's FT: "We have taken Microsoft off the trials and are re-evaluating what we are going to do." Just last month Portuguese cable group TV Cabo said that it too was having "teething troubles" with Microsoft technology, although it remains committed to the platform.
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