The software formerly known as Atlas

Thanks to Mike Cline for this tip about the software formally known as Atlas:

Microsoft has announced that is going to target the official release the Microsoft Ajax Library 1.0 (the software formerly known as Atlas) for the end of this year. Actually, Atlas will be split up into 3 products:

1. The client side Atlas Ajax library will be named “The Microsoft Ajax Library”,
2. The server side Atlas functionality will be called the “ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions”,
3. The Atlas Control Toolkit will be known as the “ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit”.

Splitting it up into 3 products makes it a bit confusing…

Given that there have been more than 250,000 downloads of the Atlas CTPs already, one wonders how much difference an “official release” will make.

I think this is great news. Ajax is the buzz word for web development - every ad for web tool kits now says something about being Ajax enabled. Microsoft is always a couple years behind everyone else before they support / embrace things, especially internet technologies (just the Internet in general, Web Browsers, Java, Web Services, Blogging, Instant Messaging, P2P, etc.). Maybe they are finally learning. I think Ajax is great and this is sure to really turbo charge people using it more, which I am excited for!

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