BBC and Microsoft to explore opportunities for next-gen broadcasting

The BBC has revealed that it is to work closely with Microsoft on technology that will enable the corporation to better deliver programming and archived material over the internet.

An agreement - described as a non-exclusive memorandum of understanding - was signed this week at Microsoft's HQ in Seattle when the BBC's director-general Mark Thompson and its director of new media and technology Ashley Highfield met Microsoft chairman Bill Gates.

Areas of potential investigation and collaboration are said to include search and navigation, distribution and content-enablement.

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