Wave Issue 9711 5/9/97 Article 1-01

***QuickNews

Microsoft buys Dimension X
[May 7]

Microsoft Corp. will acquire Dimension X, a start-up company devoted to
the Java multimedia market. Dimension X began in March 1995 and had the
first Java-based multimedia authoring tool, Liquid Motion, and the first
Java-based VRML browser and runtime technology, Liquid Reality. The
Dimension X Liquid products and technology will be integrated into the
Microsoft DirectX multimedia system services. Java multimedia developers
will also have access to hardware acceleration using DirectX. Liquid
Motion and Liquid Reality are expected to be shipped with the DirectX
media Software Development Kit (SDK). Most of Dimension X's 40 employees,
now based in San Francisco, will join Microsoft in Redmond, including
Dimension X founders Karl Jacob, Chris Laurel and Ryan Watkins and key
engineers Patrick Schmitz, Charles Loop, Mark Halstead and Alan
Greenblatt

www.dimensionx.com/