theft of several thousand lines of QuickTime source code to improve the performance of Video for Windows. This lawsuit was ultimately settled in 1997, when Apple agreed to make Internet Explorer the default browser over Netscape; in exchange, Microsoft agreed to continue developing Microsoft Office and other software for Mac OS for the next 5 years, and purchase $150 million of non-voting Apple stock. In March 1997, Microsoft announced that ActiveMovie would become part of the DirectX 5, and around July started referring to it as DirectShow. Version history See also QuickTime References Computer-related introductions in 1992 Microsoft Windows multimedia technology Multimedia frameworks Discontinued Windows components