The next revision of Microsoft's 1250 code page will contain the new symbol, but Microsoft saw little need to update the older 8-bit code pages as they are currently phasing these out in favour of the Unicode subset of ISO 10646. On July 15th the European Monetary Institute announced support for the new logo, and on July 23rd the European Commission issued a press statement on the use of the new symbol. OSD provides a data format or vocabulary to describe software components, their versions, their underlying structure and their relationships to other components. OSD is seen as a way to provide the metadata needed to allow software updates to be handled using the latest push technology techniques. The protocol is designed to efficiently replicate a hierarchical set of files to a large number of clients.
Clients can choose to download only the data that has changed since the last time it checked.
It has been decided that the MPEG-4 should be released in two versions. Version 2, which will be backward compatible with Version 1, will follow by November 2000. It will add facilities for the scalable transmission of objects with arbitrary shape, support for semi-transparent video objects and spatial auralization of audio signals. W3C have announced a proposed standard for embedding detailed information relating to scalable web fonts into HTML Cascading Style Sheets . The specification includes facilities for downloading fonts that are not currently available from specified URLs.