At Scott Guthrie's DevConnections keynote, Petyo Ivanov (from telerik) noticed that Scott was using CSS for the page design in his Atlas demos. Petyo asked him about it later at the Microsoft Unplugged event and reports in his blog about learning that "Microsoft promotes CSS as the weapon of choice when it comes to defining the look andfeel of ASP.NET web forms."
telerik had a booth at the show and I spent some time chatting with them. A few days later, when I found an off-the-beaten-track spot by the pool, I unknowingly parked right next to telerik guys who were in the pool, so got to spend a lot more time talking about their tools, their already available AJAX-ified controls and their future with ATLAS. I even tried to inspire a little interest in ink on the web. We also talked about an anti-3rd party control mindset. I was like this many years ago until someone convinced me to try some out and I know have gobs of 3rd party controls in my apps. I know developers who still have a hard time “letting go“ and benefitting from the work that has already been done by other companies. It's a big shame.