Name That Microsoft Product
Aug 17th, 2006 by Brian A. Thomas
Steven Smith at Microsoft is taking names for Microsoft’s Atlas (more or less Microsoft’s version of AJAX with enhancements). I personally like his suggestion of “Web Technology Framework - WTF (!)” but it is missing the word Foundation, which seems to be on lots of Microsoft technology these days, perhaps switch Framework with Foundation and you get closer to a good name.
What I am not clear on yet is how compatible Atlas is with Linux and Apple. They say they work with Safari, so I am guessing it works on Apple, but to be truly cross browser it would need to work on Linux browsers, be it Firefox, Opera or whatever. Having .Net on all 3 platforms (Linux, Apple and Windows) would be a true boon to developers… even if all Microsoft gave us was OS X and Windows (and XBox 360 as I reported earlier) that would be cool… no need to use Mono…
