I actually reinstalled Truespace recently (this week). I had a magazine disc which had a copy. I wish Microsoft would have just made it open source rather than buying it and killing it. The danger is throwing support behind one format. Let's use Truespace as the example. Say Microsoft purchased Daz or even Poser. They have the money (look at what they just spent for LinkedIn) to buy either or both companies. Microsoft might use the technology a bit but more than likely they'd let it die and that would be the end (as Microsoft has done with many software and hardware companies).

On a side note I had a vendor tell me D/S was easier to make products for... which I'd think you'd still have to make a set extra materials for Iray in addition to the normal ones (I see many Genesis products charging extra for the Iray materials).

Given the current push toward VR, I'd expect to see one of the two suddenly make a push toward putting their figures (in a certain format) in VR games or demos. Actually if you could get either software program to work in VR, posing and moving things around from inside a scene would be pretty interesting. Imagine being in a stonemason scene moving figures around to where you want them to finally end up; however both software programs would need major interface changes to actually be able to work this way.

The dust settled, thinking "what a fine home, at least for now" not realizing that doom would soon be coming in the form of a vacuum cleaner.