Microsoft Joins OpenAjax Alliance

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."

Comments

because they want to work with others...

[Locutus]

The news should be that they are joining this existing group so they can subvert it, slow it down, or just plain make sure their stuff doesn't work well on MS Windows.

LoB

Re:boon and bane

[ClosedSource]

"Do you remember how they supported Java? Lots of stalling, equivocating and Windows-only Java extensions, all while promoting ActiveX over Java. Eventually, all these actions prompted a lawsuit from Sun which Sun won. After this, Microsoft totally dropped support of their JVM in a fit of spite."

Actually MS was a rather early adopter of Java. Yes, they made a JVM that ran 100% pure Java apps better on Windows than Sun's could and they added extensions to the Java language (in the form of J++) that made Java more useful to Windows programmers. Apparently the potential of capturing 90% of desktops was less important to Sun than achieving partial WORA on the remaining 10%, so Sun sued MS.

It was perfectly logical and reasonable for MS to get out of the Java business once Sun made it clear they were out for blood.

Re:Embrace, Extend, Exterminate

[Doc Ruby]

Here's an original statement: you're a worthless fool.

We're arguing about whether Microsoft damages open standards while claiming their cloak of respectability, as they have with XML, and as they will do with the class of XML apps called AJAX, the subject of the story. There might be an argument as to the openness of XML, which would be lost as the AC argued so far in this thread. There might be an argument whether XML is better than CSV by addition of runtime machine-readable DTDs, but it's not only irrelevant, you blew your chance to indulge by talking like an obnoxious moron - while being wrong, to boot.

If you can't even keep the debate on the merits of Microsoft's abuse of technologies to preserve proprietary advantage masked in open standards, there's no use offering you the privilege of discussing it with me.

Goodbye.