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Content and services being developed under the “BBC 2.0” banner could be delivered over Xbox 360s, Live Messenger and Windows Media Center.

The BBC announced a memorandum of understanding with Microsoft yesterday:

This includes plans for its online archive, for a radically re-invented website in the web 2.0 world — a second generation of internet-based services — and for ways to share its online content in the future.

Ashley Highfield, the BBC’s director of new media and technology said:

“Microsoft is not just a key supplier to the BBC, it is also a key gateway to audiences that the BBC needs to reach through web services it runs like MSN® and Windows Live™ Messenger, and hardware such as Xbox® and the Windows Media® Center.”

According to the BBC there could be cooperation and collaboration with Micrososft on” search and navigation, distribution, and content enablement.”