Ask HN: Who built XMLHttpRequest at Microsoft in 1999?

The person (or persons) deserve a medal.

All I can find is it was built for Outlook Web Access. Nothing more. No names, no nothing.

Who's idea was it, and who built it?

Anyone know?

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/123475/who-first-created-or-popularized-the-original-xmlhttprequest-msxml

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMLHttpRequest