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Microsoft stocks up on Ajax--not

Ina Fried Former Staff writer, CNET News
During her years at CNET News, Ina Fried changed beats several times, changed genders once, and covered both of the Pirates of Silicon Valley.
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Turns out a posting on Friday that Microsoft had hired Java specialist Matt Raible to work "on the Visual Studio Team to integrate Ajax-ish components into .NET" was in fact an elaborate April Fool's joke.

On his blog, Raible said that he planned join Microsoft on April 11 as a developer and evangelist.

Later, Raible let us in on the joke.