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To: Michael Feldstein who wrote (10805)	4/5/1998 5:03:00 PM
From: George von Dassow	Respond to of 213176

<<Any ideas about how this announcement affects QT 3.0? Is this a competing product?>> I don't know specifically, but that sounds a lot like something the MS alliance would have been trying to sell to the crowd trying to make up MPEG4. Almost certainly this is the fruit of MS' purchase, a while back, of several small streaming media companies (if memory serves). As everyone probably knows, Quicktime was selected as the basis for MPEG4, though the announcement about that was so nebulous that I could distill nothing in the way of technical information from it. At Seybold Jobs made some comment about MS and friends having proposed an alternative that wasn't ready yet... this is surely it, and it has become, it seems, a replacement for AVI and WAV (after all, MS can't exactly capitulate and adopt Quicktime as standard). - George