First Cisco and 2nd Microsoft

Wow! first Cisco pays $6.9 Billion for Scientific Atlanta. Next Microsoft strikes deal with a cable television consortium. Microsoft will have the Media Center PCs with digital cable cards. News.com has all the Cisco info and Bink has the Microsoft details. Looks like 2 of the 3 most profitable tech companies of the last decade are going after the home entertainment vertical. Will Cisco and Microsoft upstage Apple in the consumer entertainment industry? Intel, the third leg of this trio, has money on both sides of the equation. They should have out the first Intel Macs come Jan 06.