In many ways DirecTV broadens their range as a company with each venture that they involve the company in, whether it is sports or whether it is this new partnership to make schools more educational for students. This latest team up with Microsoft goes to show that they have become more than just a satellite television company who is in business for entertainment purposes only.

Directv and Microsoft have announced that they have formed a partnership and with this partnership they plan to make some changes in a big way in schools located in Miami and also in Latin America.

Although this is not the first time these two giants have teamed up, they were brought together approximately two years ago when they announced that they would be bringing Directv and Windows Media Center together. While a spec sheet for this product was reportedly shown there has not been a product that has been brought to the market that will be used as an educational aid for students.

This shows the direction that the Directv company is headed with their expanding from bringing integrated sports viewing to their customers to now partnering and heading into giving students a better education, both here and in other countries.

While the main focus will be in Latin America the highly rated satellite television company and the computer giant have begun this venture with a pilot school in Miami with their educational line up that will be available for viewing. Along with the Discovery Channel they will be working with a program called Escuela Plus, this will send educational programs by satellite into these participating schools.

These programs can be viewed live or stored on digital video recorders for students to view at a later time. This is just a part of what is included; there will also be a Microsoft help desk that is set up that will train teachers as well as the students to provide technical support in their computer labs.

This began as a pilot program in January of this year and included twenty-one schools in Latin America and there are plans to expand to other countries such as Chili, Columbia and Peru.

To date there is no firm plans of when this service that will add to the education of children in these other countries will begin. However, there are plans that this service will be used in these other countries.