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March 31, 2006
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MS web plugin: Hey, this sounds significant... Microsoft's Steve Ballmer says: "One of the most exciting is something that we call Chrome Effects. Chrome Effects was just released to our hardware manufacturer partners. They are integrating it with the Windows that they are now shipping on new machines. Chrome Effects is a set of technologies that we've built using XML that live inside the browser, and let you do very exciting 2D and 3D publishing and animation work inside our browser. Chrome Effects requires a machine that's 300 megahertz. Chrome Effects requires a machine with a 4 meg 3D video card in it. You can buy a machine that runs Chrome Effects today for $1,100-1,200. And we have hardware vendors who say they'll have Chrome Effects machines in the market by Christmas that sell for $900 with the monitor included. It's a very, very mainstream technology for the future, but of course as you look at it, you'll say to yourself, it's not mainstream in the install base today. But I think when you see the kinds of things that you'll be able to do from an online publishing perspective, you could get very excited about the potential. And it will be a mainstream technology as OEMs start offering it standard on their machines over the next several months." Bill Gates has more. Sounds impressive, if they can bring it to fruition....
Posted by John Dowdell at March 31, 2006 9:18 PM
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