During the Conan O ‘Brien fiasco, Microsoft made an attempt to get the late night comedian to do shows for Xbox Live, however Executive Producer Jeff Ross revealed that Microsoft really did not show any plans for what they planned to do with Conan and instead signed with TBS.

“A lot of the conversations were ‘well, it’s a show, but it’s not a show and there are no breaks, but maybe there are breaks and it’s not 60 minutes, it’s this’ and nobody really knew what it was,” Ross told Morris. “So it was really going to be a leap of faith to jump in with these guys and figure something out which we didn’t know. Plus there were 100 people of jobs and that didn’t bode well for that.”

Despite rejecting Microsoft’s proposal, Ross said that he is amazed by what the technology titan is trying to do.

“You meet with these guys and they show you all this stuff that they’re developing and it’s mind blowing,

“I think it’s coming and it’s big. It’s just that we weren’t in a position at that point to figure out what it was.”

There have been rumblings for months now that Microsoft wants to add a television/cable service and they have been in talks to do so with companies trying to get this service started.  Gamasutra hinted that it’s possible to see the launch of some kind of cable service this holiday season.

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Seems an odd route to take. I wonder what they have planned to make it unique.

If Microsoft would add a cable service and if the price was decent, I would drop Comcast in a heart beat...well the cable anyway.

Yeah, but they'd have to have something super massive in the works to roll out a nationwide cable service. Not to mention competing with comcrap.

Yeah and I'd assume they would have to carry almost all of the main channels that everybody else has. Then maybe like a "pay for this channel" pack thing if you want to add something like the Military channel, kids programming like Sprout and Nick Jr. etc....

I think it's more likely that they'd start their own channel or network. Though they certainly have the means to go full out cable service.

They're still going after high profile people to showcase this event. Whatever it may be. Hope it's someone cool, and not a Jersey Shore person or something.

Would it be the iptv thing?