Success Where Bill Gates Failed: the WebTop Revolution Finally Arrives

Today's launch of the Vizeon Discovery WebTop - using the technology that got Bill Gates and Microsoft into so much trouble - illustrates its true potential. Integrating the User's desktop with the world wide web, the Vizeon Discovery WebTop delivers educational audio visual content right into the PC. A voyage of discovery of our world and the wonders of our universe is now just one click away.

(PRWEB) December 18, 2003 --Todays launch of the Vizeon Discovery WebTop proves that a phoenix can really arise from the ashes. In 1998, Bill Gates, Microsoft CEO, crashed and burned his PC in a televised trade show launching Windows 98, with Active Desktop technology. Consumers then rejected Microsofts 'Channels which used this new technology and with the anti-trust suit problems, Active Desktop was forgotten, until now.

It's hard to visualize the Active Desktop unless you've really seen it, but imagine a web page that behaves almost like wallpaper on your desktop with all your own desktop icons still in place, except that the web page is "live" in the background. It's slick, but I still question the practical value of the Active Desktop unless you have a high-speed Internet connection open at all times." This was the 1998 verdict of Cathi Schuler of Computer Connection, but the world has moved on and broadband is now becoming commonplace.

Vizeon Technologies is using active desktop in a manner never imagined before. The Vizeon Discovery WebTop is set as the PCs display background, where it is always available, whatever application is being run at the same time. The WebTop becomes a new user interface to Windows and the Web. It delivers many types of content which Windows is otherwise unable to handle.

The first time you see a Vizeon WebTop, you may wonder at what you are seeing," says John Bartram, CEO of Vizeon Technologies. Is it Linux, is it an application? No, this is active desktop as it should be." You need to see it to believe, he says.

A Vizeon WebTop is point-and-click so that anyone can use it easily to watch webcasts, listen to sounds, play games and listen to the radio. Sitting quietly in the PC users display background, the Vizeon Discovery WebTop delivers The Discovery Channel portal without using a browser. Vizeon WebTops do not use any application, or executable file -- they are very light on system resources.

Vizeon Technologies Limited was started in England in mid-2003. John Bartram has been in the media business since 1970 and has been involved with the internet and the web from their earliest days.
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