You need a more complete history of Microsoft to know the full story. Back in the early DirectX days (1996), Microsoft was working on a technology called Chrom

You need a more complete history of Microsoft to know the full story. Back in the early DirectX days (1996), Microsoft was working on a technology called Chrome Effects that was intended to compete with VRML as the world's ultimate "Networkable Graphics" format. This history is covered in books such as <em>Renegades of the Empire</em>. This was stuff from back when Michael Abrash worked at Microsoft!