Microsoft Announces Hardware-Accelerated HTML5, Pushes Boundaries on Web and Cloud Development

Industry standards and innovation took center stage at MIX10, as Microsoft Corp. made a series of announcements that underscore the company's commitment to interoperability and performance on the Web. [...] As part of Microsoft's broad engagement with open source communities, Corporate Vice President Scott Guthrie today announced that Microsoft is investing resources to contribute to the development of the jQuery JavaScript Library to help improve the development process of standards-based Web applications. Microsoft will also work to provide better interoperability between ASP.NET and the jQuery JavaScript Library by enhancing ASP.NET so .NET developers can better incorporate jQuery capabilities.

[I gather they want to be on the iPhone and iPad. And their definition of "interoperability" is you can use their stuff easier, which matches the goal Steve Ballmer set for "Open Source", that it all run on Windows instead of the Linux kernel. - Pamela Jones, Groklaw]