2006.04.12 from: the new century Weekly Bulishike 

  Ajax a group called the procedure, and may have Microsoft desktop software pose a threat to the leadership position. 

  If you want to know the future of the Internet, on Google's website boost look at the map.    At first sight, it seems similar to other sites with no great difference.    However, once you enter a certain address, the web site immediately lead you to a city, and a crossing a street, and in this process, you will find that very beautiful things.    First of all, you will not see the hourglass icon.    Website will be seamlessly suddenly switch to a new one, waiting for your computer to download more data, the screen there will not be any interruption.    This function has been helping to create the Google Earth website.    The website collects the rest of the world satellite pictures, click on the last one of the highest rates of websites.    These sites will be able to download information smoothly to a user's computer, have been well received, and the United States in many other industries practitioners light of this, many are using them to help expand their business.    In the United States, if you want to find a new apartment, you can enter your Housingmaps.com website the names of the target block.    Then, an instant you will see a bird's-eye view, the top of the standard virtual pushpin, each pushpin on behalf of a real estate held for sale or Let.    If you want to know the target area is a good law and order can be entered mapsexoffender.com Web site.    The site will be Google's map information with the United States in the criminal records together, and then marked on the map at the end of every case of a villain's address. 

  Such smooth scroll Internet application has been able to achieve, thanks to a technology called Ajax, Ajax is a group of computer programs, which are programs complement each other, enable seamless web site to operate like a computer program run in the PC, as .    Despite this innovative technology in the Google site map of the most easily see, it is not Google proprietary.    In the past few months, Ajax has become a driving force that gave birth to a series of new Internet-based services, including free Writely word processing procedures, electronic data sheet production sites NumSum, and the people used in the preparation of the agenda and timetable for the work site Voo2do.    Ajax technical use of these sites there, has prompted people to the Internet and to rethink the relationship between the personal computer.    In fact, Ajax may result in many personal computers based on the application of software applications were eliminated, which led to many of the computer industry in the field of earth-shaking changes. 

  For decades, experts have always believed that science and technology, data and computer software will sooner or later shift from the desktop to the Internet.    Growing popularity of broadband Internet connections at the same time, computers will become more and more compact and portable.    The future will discard bulky computer hard drive, and access to the Internet and the Internet become the main entrance servers, Internet servers had to bear most of the word processing, spreadsheet, and other procedures for the production, as well as data storage.    Today, the Internet has been part of the forecast to be achieved, but he was still there are some shortcomings, one of which is connected instability.    When personal computers bit by bit waiting for the server to download data, Internet access, often unstable situation will arise.    Ajax rather than solve the problems, not that it covered up the problem.    Ajax will be Internet servers and personal computers to serve as buffers between, the service very cleverly smoothly, and that the people did not stop.    Google Earth site, even if your PC is also download those higher-resolution picture of the way, you can still rolling on the screen bird's-eye view.    Facts have proved that such a subtle distinction sufficient to surf the Internet, the psychological change.    Ajax and would not improve the speed of downloading data, but can not wait for the process has become so frustrating. 

  So far, Internet-based applications are still very few of those PC-based software has yet to pose a threat.    However, as expected from the desktop computer software will be transferred to the Internet, Microsoft's management has begun to worry.    For a long time, Microsoft has a virtual monopoly in the desktop software market, it is very late to see the change coming.    Adaptice Path founder of the consulting firm Jialeite said: "2001 antitrust suit, the main competitor Netscape disappeared, over the past few years, Microsoft seems to be at a loss." In a year in October was leaked Microsoft internal memo, Microsoft's chief technology officer Ozzie acknowledged this point.    In that memorandum, he said: "Our company has a strong network of resources, it should be early in the development of the potential of Ajax the lead." 

  The emergence of the Microsoft Ajax are particularly embarrassing, because Ajax in a number of key Microsoft technology is invented in 1997, but the company later they shelved.    But other hand, did not have anyone to see the potential of Ajax.    Ajax is not a single invention; It is composed of a number of computer programs, and these procedures are in a number of different areas developed by the public.    About a year ago, the number of independent software developers found that, if the combination of these procedures, they can have some useful function.    Oddpost software company founder and programming division Diamond through the use of Ajax technology, the Internet-based e-mail and in the process become almost running on the desktop is no different from the.    He said: "In 1999, in the home, I use (Microsoft) Outlook Express, away from home when using a Yahoo e-mail system and I do not use in the home, Yahoo, because it is smaller than the Outlook Express interface. However, we are convinced that, through the use of Ajax technology, we can produce comparable to the Outlook Express interface. "in 2004, Yahoo acquired Okkpost, Diamond is now developing a foundation to Ajax for the Yahoo e-mail system.    He said: "At present, each household appliances Post companies are working to develop applications using Ajax." 

  Popular photo-sharing site Flickr Ajax technology has been used, allowing the user to photograph for their timely accession to the title and description, promptly put their own photo collections series, or for watching photo, Flickr founder and CEO Butterfield said: "I believe that if there is no Ajax, Flickr not so popular as they are today." Ajax to his website become "faster, cooler, more intuitive power." 

  Ajax is not only to simulate a desktop system.    He also from the website to gather information from different sources, and then putting that information seamlessly to the current show in the browser.    Housingmaps.com from Craiglist website collects addresses of homes for sale, then such information with Google maps together.    News & Bible Web site (say4.com) according to the keywords in the news, identify matching chapters of the Bible.    Dealmine.com collected from many sources of information discount stores. 

  No one would believe that Ajax from the desktop software can completely eliminated.    Existing browsers do not have a like PhotoShop or desktop programs such as Final Cut as dealing with complex images or video.    However, the future desktop procedures may need to increasingly focus on some powerful computing capacity to deal with the special characters.    Microsoft has some of the major products (such as Word, Excel, etc.) is likely to face competition by other companies Ajax version of the same type of products challenge.    Faced with this prospect, Microsoft's response is also Ajax into its products.    The company's platform strategy group manager O'Brien Group, said: "Since we have been divulging the secret, and Ajax is also from a developer interested only from the early technology gradually become able to arouse the curiosity of the general user, Our task now is to let…… this technology can be the greatest possible number of users. "he added, Ozzie can be said that the memorandum been a wake.    Now Microsoft has introduced a map based on the Ajax applications, named Windows Live Local.    Microsoft also is developing a temporary based on the code-named Atlas for the products, the company said, this new product will make based on Ajax programming more easily.    The company is also developing Ajax version of the Office, if successfully developed, Word and Excel procedures will no longer be independent products, but services. 

  However, Ajax is the first battle of the war may be only in the giants such as Google and Yahoo between.    Jialeite said: "Google has concocted a delicious dishes. Their use of these technologies for users to create even more versatility, and more smooth and seamless browsing experience." Microsoft, your turn came!