Bill Gates about Ajax, Office 12 and more
Here is a short sample of the interview;
Microsoft is actively trying to help more people to be able to do this by creating a set of tools (called Atlas) that makes it easier to write interactive web applications with DHTML and Asynchronous Javascript (AJAX):
"DHTML let you do things with jobs that ran pretty reliably on the client platform, and it is surprising how long it's taken [...] Now people have woken up to that and it creates a phenomenon. Even within Microsoft we've seen it in many places. We have our Infopath group, our Hotmail group [...] so we've brought it together in terms of creating a runtime and making it really easy for people, which we call Atlas. [Keeping track of] synchronization and caching and debugging [these web sites], it's fairly hard, but with the right tools, this sort of thing will become fairly standard, and so here at the Mix 06 [web developer's conference] we'll have Scott Guthrie talking about how he's really looked at all these groups, both inside Microsoft and outside, and figured out how to create a runtime [Atlas] that makes this very doable and in a very rich way."
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