For ages, Microsoft developers have been proud to have a very easy way to develop AJAX interfaces in .NET. Misguided as usual, they don't know the difference between asynchronous and synchronous requests.

But all that may be about to change. jQuery announced that Microsoft is adopting jQuery into their Visual Studio IDE. Already jQuery is being brainwashed and talking about "existing ASP.NET AJAX capabilities". Well, they're not entirely wrong since the technology is actually named "ASP.NET AJAX".

The probably bad news is that Microsoft "will be developing additional controls, or widgets, to run on top of jQuery that will be easily deployable within your .NET applications." Let's hope they're not going to turn jQuery into the abomination that J++ became.

This entry was posted on Monday, September 29th, 2008 at 12:38 and is filed under Ajax. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.