{{Short description|Software to create Java animations}} {{primary sources|date=September 2011}} '''Microsoft Liquid Motion''' was a product from Microsoft to create Java animations.<ref name="o814">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4c8Qbd14llIC&pg=PA73 |title=PC Mag |date=August 1998 |publisher=Ziff Davis, Inc. |page=73 |issn=0888-8507 |access-date=2025-03-01}}</ref><ref name="a607">{{cite book |last=Callihan |first=S.E. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RLiSVjj161UC |title=Create Web Animations with Microsoft Liquid Motion |publisher=Prima Tech |year=1998 |isbn=978-0-7615-1822-8 |series=Computer Bks |page= |access-date=2025-03-01}}</ref><ref name="o420">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HBwEAAAAMBAJ&pg=RA1-PA11 |title=Network World |date=29 June 1998 |publisher=IDG Network World Inc |page=1-PA11 |issn=0887-7661 |access-date=2025-03-01}}</ref> It was based on technology acquired from Dimension-X.<ref> [http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/1996/aug96/vrml20pr.mspx "Microsoft Licenses Industry's First Java-Based VRML 2.0 Implementation From Dimension X"]</ref> A beta was released in 1998,<ref> [http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/1998/may98/liquidpr.mspx "Liquid Motion Delivers Web Animation for Everyone"]</ref> and version 1.0 was released soon thereafter to compete with Macromedia Flash. The product was eventually discontinued by Microsoft in 2000 due to lack of popularity.<ref> [https://web.archive.org/web/20000816081138/http://www.microsoft.com/liquidmotion/ "Microsoft is discontinuing Liquid Motion"]</ref><ref>About.com: [http://graphicssoft.about.com/library/extra/blwh_liquidmotion.htm Whatever Happened To... Liquid Motion]</ref> Since Liquid Motion created Java-based animations, they were cross-platform and browser-independent.

==See also== *Microsoft Vizact 2000 *DirectAnimation *Microsoft Silverlight

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==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20080705221449/http://www.calormen.com/jck2002/Documentation.htm More information]

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