June 27, 2005

Liquid Motion!

: Let the Games Begin

[1]How "again"? Remember "Image Composer"? While more of a sprite layout and presentation engine it still had some pretty cool features. What ever happend to that project? It just kind of disappeared round about the same time "Liquid... ohhh, what was the name of that Java-based Flash competitor that MS bought with all the promise in the world and yet I dont even think it made a 1.0 release officially. Definitely one of those "what the heck happened here" question mark projects that seemed to just disappear overnight. Liquid... DANG!!! Thats going to bug me until I think of it. Anybody wanna help me out here?]

Liquid Motion!!!

That was the name of the so called "Flash Killer" MS bought back in the day that suddenly and mysteriously disappeared from the scene along with Image Composer quite literally overnight....

Maybe someone special from Macromedia started dating someone special from MS and -- "poof" -- like MicroFlashMagic the two groups were purposely-on-accident sent over to building 123 (I think thats where the Tradeshow Resource Group used to be/still is?) and put under the management of my old RoadWarrior buddys, The Tradeshow Resource Group[1] and renamed "The Liquid Motionless Graphics Development Team" as part of one of the bi-annual reorgs that seemed to happen even more often than that back in the day...

Maybe now we know why!

I'm sure stranger things have happened ;) [yes, in case there are those who don't already know... this is a joke. Don't go of touting on your blog that MS really is/was evil and point at this post for further evidence. Thank you. :D]

[NOTE: I feel so much better now as I can just do a search on my blog now next time I forget.. One of many uses of blogs those of you who are "without blog" at the moment will undoubtedly discover when you find yourself suddenly with. (kind of like girlfriends (or boyfriends as the case may be for you) blogs happen when you least expect them. don't say I didnt warn you...) :)]

[1] The ones who were ALWAYS the first to arrive and last to leave every damn tradeshow, convention, and side-show carnival act the Visual C++/Visual Studio or WindowsCE team was a part of and therefore I attended to either speak or present at (yes, theres a difference) or furthermore man the booth if it happened to be a TS/Convention combo (ooohhh.. my favorite 8-[) If you ever wonder why it is I rarely attend trade shows and conventions... maybe my 3 year [96-99] total combination between Delta and United of well over 500,000 frequent flyer miles might help in understanding that I have had more than my fill of Orlando and the Orange County Convention Center, SanFran and the Moscone Center, Las Vegas and the ... , Narwlins' (New Orleans for those wondering) TaiPei, Tokyo, San Diego, San Jose, Chicago, LA/Long Beach, New York, London, Nice, Munich, and every convention hotspot that is left, right, up and down from each of these to fill several lifetimes.