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Microsoft Shrugs Off Atlas Beta

There's nothing like a bad Ayn Rand pun to start your day, and the news that Microsoft is shipping a new beta of Atlas, the Ajax tool, gave me that opportunity. Version 1 of ASP.NET Ajax (that just rolls of the tongue) is The Fountainhead of a whole new style of programming for Visual Studio and ASP.NET programmers. Now it just needs an Anthem!

Posted by Doug Barney on November 01, 2006


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