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Microsoft Corporation
December 10, 1998
Responding to customer demands for broader platform appeal and tighter integration, Microsoft will incorporate Chromeffects technology as an integrated component of the Windows platform. Moving Chromeffects technology closer to the operating system will deliver Chromeffects functionality to a broader class of Windows customers, and will provide improved performance through seamless access to DirectX. Microsoft will not, as previously planned, deliver Chromeffects technology as a standalone product. For developers, this means that the applications we once expected to be built for a special Chromeffects product will now be built using the Windows APIs.
Current Chromeffects functionality, which will be made available in a future version of the Windows operating system, includes 3-D text, HTML element texturing, and 3-D primitives. Additional functionality previously not available, will include HTML+TIME (with extensibility model), 3-D geometry construction, 2-D operations on HTML, and richer 2-D primitives.
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