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| | Wired News: Microsoft Marks Web-Chat Turf |
 | | As part of its first entry into Web-based chat, Microsoft is beta-testing Virtual Chat, a software client that offers 3-D chat. |
 | | Now, along with MSN's Comic Chat, Virtual Chat is being developed by Microsoft's Normandy Group, which is taking MSN applications and remarketing them as licensed software products for Web developers and ISPs. |
 | | Although Microsoft is the only company so far that has announced its intention to open its chat software up to the Web, chat industry companies are sure the rest aren't far behind. |
| www.wired.com /news/culture/0,1284,1848,00.html (696 words) |
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