You did invent XMLHttpRequest, for which I must give you credit, even though you didn't actually use it for anything interesting until it was rediscovered years

You did invent XMLHttpRequest, for which I must give you credit, even though you didn't actually use it for anything interesting until it was rediscovered years later XMLHttpRequest was first deployed in Outlook Web access in the ancient year of 2000. Years before gmail made it popular. So I would certainly say that Microsoft used it for something...