AJAX fully adopted by Microsoft?

So it seems that Ajax is now viewed with interest by Microsoft, at least this is what Robert Scoble report this morning citing Charles Fitzgerald (general manager of platform strategy at Microsoft).

"The company is building software, code-named Atlas, that provides developers with tools designed to ease creation of AJAX-style applications. An early version of the software will be made available to developers at the company's Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles in September."

This is so cool, finally developing with AJAX will make sense if it's adopted by the numbers.