Verily I say unto thee, that Bob Tennent spake thusly:
> On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 15:48:10 -0500, Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
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>> We *DID* have AJAX 5 years ago, And guess what? Itw as invented by
>> Microsoft. It just wasn't aclled AJAX then, it was just a
>> technique Microsoft used in Hotmail that others, including Google,
>> copied.
>
> If I recall, Microsoft *bought* hotmail. So it's not Microsoft that
> invented it.
But that's what "invented" means, Shirley - "to buy, steal, copy, or
otherwise assimilate", according to the Microsoft pocket dictionary.
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K.
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