Oh JA, sadly it will continue on in your dreams
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Originally posted by ipab on the mess.be forums
Aero was in the works, but both of us decided that after Stian and blue eyes released their skin, we will not tread on the same path. We wanted to do something different. Now, I have to talk to will and ask him if he wants to do this one solo or if he wants both of us to do it, but rest assured that both of us have a few tricks up our sleeves.
As for Aero, perhaps I will be bored one day and polish up the skin that is sitting on my computer.
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Originally posted by willz on the mess.be forums
Ill just explain whats going on with WAM,
When AeroMSN was released I made some attempts to try and get to a WLM version of the skin as fast as possible, of course university got in the way and yeh hardly gave me any time to get something happening. Once ipab and myself finally got some time we sat down and worked on WAM for a few days. There were very few people that knew that we were working on WAM at that point.
Later on in the week I was talking to Stian on the net where he showed me that he had teamed up with blue eyes and that they had started working on a skin. At this point we still decided to go ahead with the skin. Once again university and other commitments got in the way and time dragged on.
It has now got to the point where Stian and blue eyes have a functional version of their skin out. I know that the skin we had planned is completely different to theirs, but it feels rather empty to go on and finish WAM at this point. Because:
1: Stian and blue_eyes have done such a great job on their skin
2: Who knows what MS will do..... they might in the end make a WLM for Vista only that does use the true Aero look.
3: I'm kinda bored of the vista look right now
My main reason for not working on it is basically that it does not really show the world the kind of design and graphic creation skills that I want to show. By that I mean that all we are doing is recreating a style that already exists and remaking it. It sort of feels like an empty cause for me.
These days all that I really see coming out of the skinning world is a Mac, Vista or even a Gnome styled skin of some sort. I really don't want something that i make to be "just another one of those vista skins". So yeh Ive decided to make something original and see where that takes me.
Is Windows Aero Messenger dead?
No, I still have the full design, resources and UIfile code that we made as does ipab. Perhaps after I finish this project we will pickup the pieces that we have of WAM beta and piece together what we had originally dreamed of. Until then just use Stian's skin 
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