Native support for XMLHTTPRequest in IE 7
I’m excited to mention that IE7 will support a scriptable native version of XMLHTTP. This can be instantiated using the same syntax across different browsers and decouples AJAX functionality from an ActiveX enabled environment.
I’m not sure that it really changes much. We’re going to be stuck supporting the ActiveX method for a long time to come. But it’s a good gesture, at the very least.