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Gates admits IE failings, looks to an AJAX future
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03/22/2006, By Martin LaMonica
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Microsoft has long viewed the software world through Windows. Now, it's hoping to prove that it understands the growing popularity of Web technologies beyond its own operating system.
Bill Gates, Microsoft's chairman, delivered a keynote speech on Monday at Mix '06 in Las Vegas, the first edition of a Microsoft conference aimed at developers building online applications that combine Web and mobile access
On Monday, Microsoft released several product updates, including a "refresh" of the Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2, and Microsoft's Atlas AJAX Web development kit will have an updated licence allowing customers to run Web applications built with Atlas.
The term AJAX was coined last year to describe a combination of Web technologies, including JavaScript and XML. More and more developers are using these tools to build more capable Web applications that can replace older generations of desktop systems.
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