Narrative's Enliven Viewer included in Microsoft Internet Explorer Starter Kit and Windows 95

Business Wire, Oct 15, 1996

WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 15, 1996--

Introduces Web users to the excitement of high quality, feature-

length multimedia productions over low-bandwidth connections

Narrative Communications Corp., a leader in highly-interactive, feature-length multimedia streaming technologies, announced today the immediate availability of the Enliven Viewer for ActiveX in retail versions of the Microsoft Internet Explorer Starter Kit and, for a limited time, in new retail copies of the Microsoft Windows 95 operating system.

Expected in retail stores today, the Enliven Viewer for ActiveX promises to introduce millions of Microsoft Internet Explorer Web browser users to the benefits of CD-ROM-quality multimedia productions over low bandwidth connections.

"Internet Explorer makes it completely painless to install and use ActiveX Controls, opening the door for millions of users to explore the full potential of the Web," said Hilmi Ozguc, president and CEO of Narrative Communications Corp. "This, in turn, helps Narrative provide businesses with a more stimulating and engaging multimedia environment for attracting, informing and selling to customers online."

"Just as Narrative's Enliven product family empowers businesses to break new ground in the use of highly-interactive multimedia content on the Web, the Internet Explorer Starter Kit similarly empowers Web users to explore this exciting new world through its showcase of ActiveX Controls," said David Fester, Internet Explorer product manager in the Internet Platform and Tools Division at Microsoft Corp.

Narrative's Enliven product suite forms a comprehensive system for optimizing, distributing and viewing animated content via the World Wide Web. Its open and extensible 32-bit client/server architecture, which was specifically designed for Internet use, provides the industry's first industrial-strength platform for the delivery of real-time interactive multimedia content over the Web.

Narrative Communications Corp., headquartered in Waltham, Mass, is the industry's premiere developer of Web-based multimedia streaming technologies that enable businesses to deliver large volumes of highly-interactive content over the Internet using low-bandwidth connections. Narrative's Web site and e-mail address are http://www.narrative.com and info@narrative.com, respectively. The company can be reached by telephone at (617) 290-5300 -0-

Narrative and Enliven are trademarks of Narrative Communications Corp. Microsoft, ActiveX and Windows are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corp. in the United States and/or other countries.

CONTACT: Narrative Communications Corp.

Alexandra Trevelyan, 617/768-2017

or

Goguen & Associates

Michelle Goguen, 541/387-8800