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Technology

A matter of depth

8 July 2000

With the US Department of Justice trying to split Microsoft in two,
Netropolitan has been wondering whether true innovation might begin to reach the
graphical user interfaces (GUIs) of tomorrow. Some think that two-dimensional
GUIs like Windows have had their day. One way of providing a 3D front end for
Windows has been dreamed up in Israel by Clockwise Technologies of Tel Aviv.
Called (with huge originality) Win3D, this might be one direction for the future
of GUIs. Instead of navigating a desktop, you move around a 3D graphics
environment that includes themed Office, Internet and Games “rooms”—and
open…

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