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To: nihil who wrote (64423)	9/11/1998 4:04:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 186894

Intel Investors - MicroSoft's ChromeEffects will ship in December This technology, to enhance Internet use, requires at least a 300 MHz PC (Microsoft formerly stated a 350 MHz Pentium II). If this becomes popular, the "low end PC" for the internet will not cut it anymore. Long term - good for any company that makes very fast CPUs that run Windows 98 ! Paul {==============================} infoworld.com Chromeffects debuts By James Niccolai InfoWorld Electric Posted at 2:41 PM PT, Sep 10, 1998 In the fourth quarter, PC makers will begin shipping Windows 98 systems that support Chromeffects, a Web technology that supports more complex features in Web pages, according to Steve Ballmer, president of Microsoft, in a keynote address at the recent Seybold conference in San Francisco. Chromeffects uses both HTML and the emerging standard Extensible Markup Language (XML) to allow developers to build Web pages that include two-dimensional and three-dimensional graphics, streaming audio, and streaming video, Ballmer said. Users of the software technology will need certain hardware including a 300-MHz system with a 4MB video card, which should be available for less than $1,000 by the fourth quarter, Ballmer said. Using simple XML and scripting, Microsoft's FX library, and third-party development tools, Chromeffects will allow publishers to jazz up online shopping catalogs, advertisements, and other Internet-commerce media, according to Ballmer. In a demonstration of Chromeffects, a Microsoft engineer showed how the technology can be used to play a video clip on the surface of a 3-D object within a Web page. The technology will be available only for Windows 98, and Ballmer fielded questions from the audience about whether Chromeffects will tie developers and users to Microsoft's most recent operating system. "It's integrated with Windows. That's probably a controversial thing to say. It operates with the PC browser; it's an integrated feature," Ballmer said. However, Microsoft is not trying to turn the Internet into a proprietary system, Ballmer said. "We don't presume to do that, but it would be a shame not to have these Windows features available to users," he continued. Andy Allison, a Web developer at Emulex, in Costa Mesa, Calif., said Chromeffects looks like "a cool idea" but it may be difficult to implement the technology for mass use and thus keep the Internet an open platform. Microsoft may offer Chromeffects for the Macintosh as an add-in to Internet Explorer 4.0 for the Mac, Ballmer said, but he did not offer any details or a time frame for that product. Microsoft Corp., in Redmond, Wash., can be reached at (425) 882-8080 or microsoft.com. James Niccolai is a San Francisco correspondent for the IDG News Service, an InfoWorld affiliate. Related articles: "Ballmer says Windows gaining ground in publishing" "VRML Consortium broadens horizons; Microsoft moves on Chrome"