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Microsoft Office Home And Stude/nt 2010, one with the hottest technologies on the Web two.0 scene is AJAX. Did you know that we invented that? No? Well, did you know we invented that back in 1999 and everyone else is just now catching up? Ajax Timeline: 1997 – IE 4.0 introduces ability to modify the UI via the DOM and client-side script 1998, 2000, and 2004 – W3C releases or updates standards on the DOM 1999 – World wide web Explorer includes XMLHttpRequest 2002 – First production Firefox release 2004 – Safari 1.two released with XMLHttpRequest support. 2004 – Google Maps, GMail, and other popular Internet apps demonstrate great UI design with AJAX 2005 – Opera 8 released with XMLHttpRequest support 2005 – Adaptive Path coins the term AJAX and makes it popular Sources: Wikipedia, Adaptive Path, MSDN Want more? Read: Microsoft invented Ajax: Let's give credit where it's due and a certain Wikipedia entry. Thanks Scott Isaacs, Microsoft Windows Live Architect, for your technical contributions to the world! (Click here to read Scott’s blog!) Jim