TiVo Inc. and Microsoft Corp. are joining forces for the first time in a deal that will let people transfer recorded television from their TiVo boxes for viewing on portable devices running Microsoft software.

The arrangement, an extension of a new TiVo service, plays into Microsoft’s natural interests by using the personal computer as a hub for routing recorded video to Windows-based mobile phones, Pocket PCs and new hand-held multimedia machines for which the Redmond company makes software.

The article goes on to highlight some of the other announcements from Gates’ CES Keynote Speech last night. It also mentions that Microsoft is coming out with a DVR to compete directly with TiVo, in true Microsoft fashion.