Not only will Microsoft support the jQuery library, but the software giant also plans to ship it as part of its Visual Studio tool set at some point, company officials said. Microsoft announced the news on Sept. 28.

The move to support jQuery comes less than a month before the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference, which will be held in October in Los Angeles, and bodes well in terms of what kind of news we might be able to expect at the PDC.

jQuery is a lightweight open-source JavaScript library that in a relatively short span of time has become one of the most popular libraries on the Web, said Scott Guthrie, Microsoft corporate vice president, in a blog announcing Microsoft's support of jQuery. John Resig, the creator of jQuery, who also is a chief evangelist at Mozilla, said Microsoft joins a long list of jQuery users, including Google, Intel, IBM, Intuit and Reuters. Resig also announced that Nokia, too, has adopted jQuery as of Sept. 28.

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