And confirmed that DOS would not be carried forward any longer. Click for full story. Complaining the VRML consortium is slow to move forward, Microsoft will develop its own 3D Web technology, code-named Chrome. The software giant's platform-specific technology will translate between XML and Microsoft's DirectX multimedia technology. Goal is to make 3D graphics more prevalent on the Web.
Reality is another standards battle.
Click for full story. Yahoo and telecommunications carrier IDT take next step in Web-based communications. Still a ways to go, but Internet telephony gradually becoming more viable. Click for full story. Intel's changing of the guard.