Last Tuesday Microsoft announced at MIX 2010 that it will be working with the jQuery Team to help further develop the library to ultimately aid with the development of Web applications.
Along with this development collaboration Microsoft will be added support for jQuery into their development tools. Allowing for faster development of .NET sites as well as packaging the jQuery library into Visual Studio 2010.
The first step into this is Microsoft’s proposal for a templating engine. The idea for this engine is to allow flexible data rendering through the use of templates.