Microsoft Agent Beta 2.0

Microsoft Agent

Name	Microsoft Agent Beta 2.0
Developer(s)	Microsoft
Initial release	June 18th, 1997 (26 years ago)
Written in	C++
Operating system	Microsoft Windows
Discontinued?	Yes

Microsoft Agent Beta 2.0 is the second beta release of Microsoft Agent. It was released and announced on the Microsoft Developer Network on June 18th, 1997. This release contains rewritten animation services, downloadable speech recognition and TTS engines, support for displaying multiple characters at once and extends the API. This version of Microsoft Agent is currently lost and unobtainable with no download link.

Characters

This release was confirmed to include early versions of Genie, Merlin and Robby; it is also the first version confirmed to have a dedicated character editor, which is not supported by the final release. Therefore, any characters created for the beta Microsoft Agent would not be compatible with either Microsoft Agent 1.5 or Microsoft Agent 2.0.

Trivia

• This version of Microsoft Agent is currently lost.
• This version of Microsoft Agent was only published to developers who had access to the Microsoft Developer Network.
• No screenshots exist of this Microsoft Agent version.
• Due to the timeline of builds, it seemed possible that the Beta 2.0 was Microsoft Agent 1.3. However, this was found to be not true, as Microsoft Agent 1.3 is Microsoft Agent Beta 3.