There's a parallel universe where Microsoft used their monopoly muscle, legal department, and influence over the W3C to crush the Web 2.0 we know. Maybe we stil

There's a parallel universe where Microsoft used their monopoly muscle, legal department, and influence over the W3C to crush the Web 2.0 we know. Maybe we still get AJAX and all that followed without XMLHttpRequest, but there's no guarantee it would have been as free and open as it was.