Return of the Animated GIF?

By Jesse Lipson

Microsoft recently launched a cool new animated gif advertisement called “The Way News Spreads” to promote the new Windows Live Messenger Beta (basically an upgraded version of the MSN Messenger IM client).

The massive 5MB animated gif is designed so that it will tile and expand to any screen size.

It’s further proof that what was once old eventually becomes new again.

Read more about it on ClickZ: http://www.clickz.com/news/article.php/3609416