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On October 31, 2009, Microsoft will be shutting down its Second Life operations to head for greener pastures on the ReactionGrid. ReactionGrid is an OpenSim, completely disconnected from Second Life’s grid, which is most likely what has drawn Microsoft to it. Microsoft released a case study, detailing the reasons for it’s move to the ReactionGrid, [...]

Not long ago (alright, in software world long, long ago) Caligari and Microsoft joined forces to further develop Caligari’s 3D modeling software “trueSpace”. In the beginning, the acquisition seemed hopeful, with Caligari’s fairly popular trueSpace becoming free to use, similar in application to Google’s SketchUp.