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Microsoft Adding jQuery To Visual Studio

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the well-isn't-that-special dept.

Tim Anderson writes "Microsoft's Scott Guthrie, Corporate VP of the .NET developer division, announced that the open source jQuery Javascript library will be integrated into Visual Studio, the main Windows development tool. Further, Microsoft will treat jQuery as a supported product within technical support contracts, and will use jQuery to build new controls for ASP.NET, its web platform."

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  1. Scary by dnoyeb · · Score: -1, Troll

    Anyone that has used VisualStudio or any of MS programming options will cringe at MS definition of "integrate".

    Hammer and duct tape...

  2. Microsoft incorporating Open Source? by paniq · · Score: -1, Troll

    Holy moly, Microsoft actually integrating Open "ewww" Source with one of its products?

    In other news:

    - Hell frozen over, Jesus Christ returned.
    - Duke Nukem Forever released.
    - Administration actually _cuts_ taxes ... no, wait!

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  3. Yet another Microsoft ripoff by IGnatius+T+Foobar · · Score: -1, Troll

    jQuery is really just Microsoft's ripoff of Prototype and Scriptaculous, a pair of open source libraries that do the exact same thing. I might even add that they do it better, because one is built on top of the other, so if you only want the lower-layer stuff you only need the one library.

    This is just one more in a long line of examples of Microsoft's "Not Invented Here" attitude problem. They could have joined the existing communities and worked with them. Open sourcing jQuery will not fix the problem -- the open source community still hates Microsoft's guts for exactly this type of behavior.

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    1. Re:Yet another Microsoft ripoff by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      It's clear that you have the facts completely wrong. jQuery is a Microsoft product -- a ripoff of Scriptaculous and Prototype. But don't let your blind delusion get in the way. Oh, and by the way, you are ugly.