Communiqué de presse



MICROSOFT AND ORANGE JOIN FORCES

TO OFFER ORANGE TV ON THE XBOX 360

Issy-les-Moulineaux, 15 December 2011

Today Microsoft and Orange announced they have signed an agreement to offer an intuitive and innovative new service to Orange TV customers in the spring of 2012: voice and motion-activated television control using Kinect’s magical technology.

Microsoft and Orange: complementary expertise offering the best in digital entertainment

Microsoft and Orange signed an agreement on 6 December which allows for Orange TV broadcasts on the Xbox[?] game console. This partnership came naturally to the two companies, which have been working together for many years both in business and consumer markets (in particular in the framework of Windows Phones) and illustrates their complementary view of tomorrow’s digital entertainment world.

Xavier Perret, Orange’s Director of Strategic Partnerships explains, “Today, Orange TV is not just present on the family’s television set, but on every screen in the home. This partnership therefore allows Orange to offer a service to its customers who want Orange TV on their game console. We already found the Windows Phone interface attractive and are now drawn by the technological opportunities of the Xbox and Kinect offer, and the changes they will enable us to make to create even greater services at Orange.”

For Microsoft, this partnership illustrates the strategy in place for the Xbox 360, offering all users connected to the Xbox Live, the broadest variety available of entertainment: video games, movies, music, and now live TV – a comprehensive content and entertainment offer.

Marc Jalabert, Microsoft’s Director of Consumer and Operators Division comments, “This partnership results from our close relationship with Orange. Together we will offer a unique digital experience to all Orange TV users who own an Xbox 360. This launch, which will take place in the spring of 2012, is the next step in our long-term collaboration.” 

Kinect and Orange TV alliance: intuitive and innovative usage

Starting in the Spring of 2012, 30 Orange TV channels, including the major channels on the French market, will be available on the Xbox 360.

Orange TV customers will be able to experience a new way to use their television through voice and motion control thanks to Kinect’s magic. Users will be able to interact with Orange TV to change channels, launch a video, pause the video, etc., with no remote control required. To launch Orange TV from the Xbox interface, users will simply say “Xbox Orange” to the game console.

This content and service offer will grow progressively throughout the year to include the catch-up service and Orange’s video-on-demand catalogue.

A pioneer in the development of new media, Orange supports the different forms of customer usage and relies on its infrastructure, expertise and content, which it aggregates, and its preferred partners, such as Microsoft. Orange is therefore able to offer its customers multi-screen availability of Orange TV, with content that is rich, diverse, and available on demand whether in the home or when travelling.

With more than 57 million Xbox 360s sold throughout the world, including 35 million connected to the Xbox LIVE, the Xbox 360 offers novel social experiences in your own living room. With the combination of Kinect’s revolutionary technology, the power of the Xbox LIVE and major partners for content and services, Microsoft is transforming the world of entertainment.

[?] For customers who have the Xbox Live Gold option, invoiced at the rate of €5/month by Microsoft.

More information about Xbox 360: ou .

All about Orange TV: orange.fr

About Xbox 360                                        

Xbox 360 is a premier home entertainment and video game system. Thanks to the addition of Kinect, Xbox 360 will forever transform social gaming and entertainment with a whole new way to play — no controller required and voice controle. Xbox 360 is also home to the best and broadest games as well as one of the world’s largest on-demand libraries of music, standard- and high-definition movies, TV shows and digital games, all in one place. The entertainment center of the living room, Xbox 360 blends unbeatable content with a leading social entertainment network of nearly 35 million Xbox LIVE members to create a limitless entertainment experience that can be shared at home or across the globe. More information about Xbox 360 can be found online at .

About Xbox LIVE

Xbox LIVE is the online entertainment service for your Xbox 360, connecting you to an ever-expanding world of games, movies, TV, music, sports and social entertainment. Xbox LIVE lets you play the best games, enjoy the largest on-demand library on any console, listen to millions of songs and share the fun with friends around the world. Xbox LIVE is also the exclusive home of controller-free online entertainment through Kinect, making your Xbox 360 more intuitive and interactive than ever before. With an active community of nearly 35 million people across 35 countries, Xbox LIVE, together with Xbox 360, provides you with instant access to the entertainment you want, shared with the people you care about, wherever you are. More information about Xbox LIVE can be found online at .

About Microsoft 

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential. 

About Orange

France Telecom-Orange is one of the world’s leading telecommunications operators with 170,000 employees worldwide, including 102,000 employees in France, and sales of 33.8 billion euros in the first nine months of 2011. Present in 35 countries, the Group had a customer base of 221 million customers at 30 September 2011, including 145 million customers under the Orange brand, the Group's single brand for internet, television and mobile services in the majority of countries where the company operates. At 30 September 2011, the Group had 162 million mobile customers and 14 million broadband internet (ADSL, fibre) customers worldwide. Orange is one of the main European operators for mobile and broadband internet services and, under the brand Orange Business Services, is one of the world leaders in providing telecommunication services to multinational companies.

With its industrial project, "conquests 2015", Orange is simultaneously addressing its employees, customers and shareholders, as well as the society in which the company operates, through a concrete set of action plans. These commitments are expressed through a new vision of human resources for employees; through the deployment of a network infrastructure upon which the Group will build its future growth; through the Group's ambition to offer a superior customer experience thanks in particular to improved quality of service; and through the acceleration of international development

France Telecom (NYSE:FTE) is listed on Euronext Paris (compartment A) and on the New York Stock Exchange.

For more information (on the internet and on your mobile): , orange-, orange-

Orange and any other Orange product or service names included in this material are trade marks of Orange Brand Services Limited, Orange France or France Telecom.

Press contacts:

Microsoft:

Guillaume Eppe: guileppe@

Julien Verdier, general press: +33 (0)1 56 69 73 91; julien.verdier@

Pascal Sontag, specialist press: +33 (0)1 56 69 75 86; pascal.sontag@

Orange:

Heloïse Rothenbühler: +33 (0)1 44 44 93 93 ; heloise.rothenbuhler@

Isabelle Spanu: +33 (0)1 55 22 27 31 ; isabelle.spanu@

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