ChromEffects

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Microsoft announced ChromEffects as an add-on for Windows 98 to play 3D graphics and video through a web browser or in separate player software, for ads with flashing text and other animation, or to generate user interface enhancements for Web-based applications.

ChromEffects promised to deliver complex multimedia over low-bandwidth connections. Using HTML, XML, C++, VBScript, and Jscript, developers would turn a web browser into a rippling, 3D space with audio and video playback. Later versions of ChromEffects were planned to have the ability to be used for representing databases in 3D.

A MacWeek article from August of 1998 quoted David Card, an analyst at Jupiter Communications as saying, "ChromEffects is cool software, and it's not often I say Microsoft has cool software. Apple doesn't have anything comparable."

Microsoft canceled the project after a lack of interest in November of 1998.

A similar newer modern initiative by Microsoft is Silverlight.

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