Is Microsoft / Google embracing jQuery a good thing?
<p>I love that Microsoft and Google are embracing jQuery but is this good? How can I deal with the possible problems when I code?</p>

<h2>The embracing of jQuery</h2>

<p>Is it good or bad that the likes of Microsoft and Google are embracing jQuery?</p>

<p>In the case Microsoft &amp; Google they are both providing free hosting on their CDNs (awesome) and in the case of Microsoft they are submitting features (maybe cool?)</p>

<h2>Upside or Downside</h2>

<p>However think about this ... by packaging jQuery with Visual Studio (for example) very quickly you might end up with sites relying on rather OLD versions of the library ...</p>

<p><strong>In my case I've already run into clients running 1.3 code, when my work relied on 1.4's much improved features. Yet these clients don't have the resources to update their <em>old</em> code ...</strong></p>

<p>This has long been a marginal drawback of JAVA and .Net ... but mostly jQuery has avoided this ...</p>

<h2>The Question</h2>

<p>Will the community benefit from this "embrace" or be hurt, and stuck with old versions?</p>

<p>What do you think?</p>
