Microsoft mulls OpenAJAX initiative
eWeek | at | by Mike
Having received an invitation to join a group of companies working to improve the AJAX development experience, Microsoft is mulling over how it might work with the collaboration of companies known as the OpenAJAX initiative.
In an interview with eWEEK on May 11, Brian Goldfarb, lead product manager for Web Platform and Tools at Microsoft, said the software giant is open to having a dialogue with the group of companies pursuing an open-standards approach to AJAX.
"The idea of open collaboration around AJAX Asynchronous JavaScript and XML is a great thing," Goldfarb said. "That's what we're focusing on ourselveslook at the work we've done with Atlas." Atlas is Microsoft's AJAX development framework.