Microsoft Wants a Piece of the Ajax Action
Accompanied by the obligatory "Microsoft's been doing Ajax-style development for years," line, including the citation of Outlook Web Access. Ask anyone who has used OWA with both IE on Windows and Firefox or Safari just how cross-platform that experience feels, and you get a taste of what "Ajax-style" really means. I hope Atlas isn't more of the same.
Incidentally, it's funny to see quotes from Macromedia and Sun talking about how much easier it is do develop rich (but thin) apps using Flash or Java as opposed to the pain Google suffered to get Ajax to work cross-platform/cross-browser for Maps and Gmail. Probably true, and yet Google elected to suffer. Interesting...
