Microsoft releases the Ajax Toolkit

From: http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2005/06/28/atlas-microsofts-ajax-toolkit/

Microsoft provides a toolkit to complete Ajax functions, called Atlas. From the blog of Scott Guthrie of Microsoft, this item should be in ASP. NET 2.0. Scott affirmed that "the Atlas Client Script Framework) can run on all modern browsers and how it interacts with any Web server ", this shows that they are developing Ajax-style remote scripts with a cross-browser attitude, which is undoubtedly a huge change. In the past, Microsoft made everything specific to IE, however, once the development tool provides complete cross-browser support, it will be able to attract more ASP. ENT developers can create cross-browser code without understanding any details.