It's quite funny you say this, because even their Ajax initiative deliberately sucks!
We're a competitor to ASP.NET Ajax and we're not even afraid of them!
Sure they've got like 10 000 more downloads per month than us, but their product quality sucks to such an extent we think they've with purpose built it bad just to make sure it's good enough for developers to embrace it but bad enough it'll take ten years to build Office with it!
Someone at MS once said; "for someone to take the lead over MS today means MS must 'bend over' and let themself become the IBM version 2.0", well that's just what they're doing in these days! And we're here to "plug" them!! ;)
PS! ajaxwidgets.com
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