Thank god for smmry Reduced to 5 sentence for those who don't want to read the whole post. ` How we actually shipped XMLHTTP It was one thing to have this coo

Thank god for smmry Reduced to 5 sentence for those who don't want to read the whole post. ` How we actually shipped XMLHTTP It was one thing to have this cool component we could use to talk to the server, but we still weren't in any position to use it in the shipping product yet. Which is the real explanation of where the name XMLHTTP comes from- the thing is mostly about HTTP and doesn't have any specific tie to XML other than that was the easiest excuse for shipping it so I needed to cram XML into the name. The beta shipped and the OWA team was able to start running forward using the beta IE5, while Shawn fixed a number of bugs through the ship day of IE5. Actually shipping the thing required help from many more people that I've mentioned so far. The lesson to take out of this thing is to appreciate the importance of shipping and having the patience to let something succeed.