This is a rare time when Microsoft inherited a product name from one of its acquistions, a vector-based natural media simulating drawing program called Expression, from a company called Creature House (bought by Microsoft around late 2003). This drawing program was inherited by the patent holder, who formed Creature House, when Metacreations divested all its graphics products in 1999 (Painter, Goo, Poser are other scattered titles that come to mind). Metacreations originally acquired Expression from Fractal Design, one of the companies that was part of the merger forming Metacreations in 1997. Fractal Design released version 1 of Expression back in the mid-1990s (1994?).
It appears Microsoft not only kept the product as the graphic component of the suite, but used its name to label the whole suite, formerly known as "Sparkle". I can't speak for the other parts of the suite, but I still have my copy of v3 of Creature House's version, and used the March 2006 CTP release of Microsoft's version, and they largely stayed with the original product, rather than "Microsofting" the interface (e.g., a color picking tool that doesn't bring up the puke-color dialog tool that harkens back to Windows 3.0). Heck, they kept the EPS, Illustrator and PDF export options so far, and Adobe support in Microsoft products in darn-near miraculous.
Nothing funnier than someone proudly nailing the light-speed-limit sign onto their argument, and then promptly multiplying by two, sending opposite ends of their notion of the universe moving apart at twice the speed of light (31.6 bln ly in 15.8 bln years).
The short sixteen-word answer: It's not the movement of objects in the universe, but the expansion of the universe itself.
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This is a rare time when Microsoft inherited a product name from one of its acquistions, a vector-based natural media simulating drawing program called Expression, from a company called Creature House (bought by Microsoft around late 2003). This drawing program was inherited by the patent holder, who formed Creature House, when Metacreations divested all its graphics products in 1999 (Painter, Goo, Poser are other scattered titles that come to mind). Metacreations originally acquired Expression from Fractal Design, one of the companies that was part of the merger forming Metacreations in 1997. Fractal Design released version 1 of Expression back in the mid-1990s (1994?).
It appears Microsoft not only kept the product as the graphic component of the suite, but used its name to label the whole suite, formerly known as "Sparkle". I can't speak for the other parts of the suite, but I still have my copy of v3 of Creature House's version, and used the March 2006 CTP release of Microsoft's version, and they largely stayed with the original product, rather than "Microsofting" the interface (e.g., a color picking tool that doesn't bring up the puke-color dialog tool that harkens back to Windows 3.0). Heck, they kept the EPS, Illustrator and PDF export options so far, and Adobe support in Microsoft products in darn-near miraculous.
Nothing funnier than someone proudly nailing the light-speed-limit sign onto their argument, and then promptly multiplying by two, sending opposite ends of their notion of the universe moving apart at twice the speed of light (31.6 bln ly in 15.8 bln years).
The short sixteen-word answer: It's not the movement of objects in the universe, but the expansion of the universe itself.