Microsoft announces Internet Explorer 4.0 content partners

Microsoft announced partnerships this week with three companies--AirMedia,BackWeb, and FirstFloor Software--who will provide Internet Explorer 4.0users with rich, interactive content.

"With Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0, our goal is to build the premier open and standards-based platform for 'Webcasting' Internet information to the desktop," said Brad Chase, vice president of marketing, Internet client and collaboration division at Microsoft. "By working with innovative 'push' technology vendors like AirMedia, BackWeb and FirstFloor, we have taken asignificant step toward providing our mutual customers the richest, easiest and most personalized delivery of information."

Microsoft's new partners will offer the following services to IE 4 users:

Microsoft is pushing IE 4.0 as a single interface to multiple servicesthat previously would have required multiple separate applications. Thislets users learn one interface, not several. For content publishers, IE 4.0is the ultimate development platform, supporting existing technologies like HTML, Java, ActiveX, JavaScript, and VBScript, while also supportingbleeding-edge technologies such as Dynamic HTML, Channel-Definition Format(CDF), and the Active Windows Desktop.

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"Webcasting" Platform (Microsoft Press Release)
AirMedia
BackWeb
FirstFloor Software