Ajax and Atlas - Not just cleaning detergent and a map book!

Microsoft has released a new Community Technology Preview of Atlas for March  2006. Atlas is a framework for building “Rich Client Applications” in ASP.Net 2.0 using AJAX.  This is cool.  This could be a big plus for .Net if Atlas REALLY does make it easy to create classes in Javascript for consuming webservices asynchronously.  I’m going to pull it down later tonight to see what’s possible.  I’m excited!