Microsoft Vizact 2000 is a discontinued program that allowed creation of interactive documents using
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, adding effects such as
animation. It allowed users to create dynamic documents for the
Web
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. It was preceded by
Liquid Motion. Vizact 2000 was "the first document activation application" according to Microsoft. Development of Vizact 2000 was ended due to unpopularity and was discontinued on April 1, 2000.
Features of Vizact 2000 included:
* See a visual representation of the items in user's document that change over time.
* Interactive bullets condense blocks of text, reducing the amount of information readers see initially.
* Create documents that address multiple audiences but don't confuse individual readers.
* Access templates to get started quickly, then modify them to fit user's needs.
* Choose from 30 professionally designed effects to help user communicate better and impress user's audience.
Vizact 2000 faces an issue running on
Windows 2000 with SP2 or later due to the Sun vs. Microsoft trial
[ Microsoft Java Virtual Machine#Sun vs. Microsoft] and the removal of
Microsoft Java Virtual Machine
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in Windows 2000 SP2 or higher. Therefore, running it on
Windows 95
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,
Windows 98
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,
Windows ME
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, Windows 2000 SP1 or reinstalling the Microsoft Java Virtual Machine is required in order for the software to run.
See also
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Liquid Motion
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DirectAnimation
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HTML+TIME
HTML+TIME (Timed Interactive Multimedia Extensions) was the name of a W3C submission from Microsoft, Compaq/DEC and Macromedia that proposed an integration of SMIL semantics with HTML and CSS
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style she ...
References
External links
Screenshots of Microsoft Vizact 2000from Amazon.co.uk
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Microsoft Java Virtual Machine#Sun vs. MicrosoftMicrosoft announces Vizact 2000
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Uncompleted Microsoft initiatives
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