Comments on: Microsoft taps JQuery for Visual Studio

The software giant will be offering and supporting the JQuery JavaScript library. Nokia, too, has taken a shine to the open-source project.

[db2not]

JQuery is a joy to use, it is good to see it getting the respect it rightfully deserves. I have tried a number of javascript libraries and over time I have settled on JQuery as my javascript api of choice. The set of standard UI plugins that are being developed for it would make it the ultimate web platform for rich internet applications.

[`WarpKat]

With guarded optimism. I've been watching MS with a lot of guarded optimism now in regards to web tech and this actually seems like a genuine move with some genuine return to the project. The danger for them is that forking jQuery (like what was done with Java and Visual J) would actually prove everyone correct where 'embrace-extend-extinguish' is concerned, especially since none of it is compiled, and fudging the browser so jQuery breaks would put them into a position to say, "see? Open Source doesn't work after all..."

I don't know - for some reason, I see MS finally getting the point that open source is not going away and the only way to play in tech business now is to play along - nicely. On the other hand, this is a little "too good to be true" for others' tastes...

[softwarepro]

yeah it is hard to believe MS will play nice and safe with jQuery. At some point they will touch that source code because it is open source.

In one way acceptance of open source by close code giant.

[Maccess]

Just like MS Java, huh?

[YankeePoodle]

Microsoft has absorbed many pro-open source developers into their rank and file. Codeplex is certainly not perfect but you can take a look at the source code of numerous ongoing projects in Microsoft.

Unlike the skeptics as a person who is working in Microsoft world, I see Microsoft playing nice with OpenSource since 2005