Alex Hopperman talks about XMLHttpRequest starting as an initiative to port exchange/outlook email to a browser: http://www.alexhopmann.com/xmlhttp.htm http://w

Alex Hopperman talks about XMLHttpRequest starting as an initiative to port exchange/outlook email to a browser: http://www.alexhopmann.com/xmlhttp.htm http://www.alexhopmann.com/xmlhttp.htm XMLHTTP actually began its life out of the Exchange 2000 team. I had joined Microsoft in November 1996 and moved to Redmond in the spring of 1997 working initially on some Internet Standards stuff as related to the future of Outlook […] I don’t recall exactly when we started working on Outlook Web Access in Exchange 2000. I think it was about a year after I joined the team, probably sometime in late 1998 […] we were already a milestone or two into the Exchange 2000 (or “Platinum”) project and had been carefully ignoring the issue of OWA [Outlook Web Access] mostly because the old version was such a hack. […] The basic premise of Outlook Web Access was that you could walk up to any computer that had the browser on it and just get to your email […] The [XMLHttpRequest] beta shipped and the OWA team was able to start running forward using the beta IE5,