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Microsoft Joins OpenAjax Alliance

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the conspiracy-theorists-activate dept.

Kurtz writes "Microsoft has joined The OpenAjax Alliance, which is focused on accelerating the use of Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, or Ajax, technologies. Microsoft said it agreed to join the alliance to work with other vendors to evolve Ajax."

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  1. Re:Embrace, extend... evolve by kestasjk · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Developers will soon have to pay big bucks to use ajax technologies. It's the Microsoft way.
    Spoken by someone who clearly doesn't understand the first thing about AJAX or where the first functions which initiated it were developed.

    Back in IE 5.0 when XMLHTTPRequest was an ActiveX function commentators, by the logic used in this thread, might have cried "Embrace extend extinguish! This is MS trying to remove competitors and forcing them to play catch up!".

    Years on XMLHTTPRequest is a JavaScript function which is the backbone of AJAX everywhere; Microsoft officially joins an initiative to get a more uniform AJAX platform and people cry "Embrace extend extinguish! This is MS trying to remove competitors and forcing them to play catch up!".

    I'm not saying others wouldn't have come up with it if Microsoft hadn't, but it does say something about calling foul too often and too early.
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