He forgot about Microsoft&#x27;s first attempt at making a Flash&#x2F;vector competitor, Liquid Motion[1]. It was out around the same time Flash 3&#x2F;4 started taking off.  They later tried again with Silverlight which was a nice effort but horrible timing with mobile about to kill plugins just a couple years later.<p>Liquid Motion seemed like it could do some damage as DHTML was huge from IE 3&#x2F;4 and it had the developers on their side because Netscape was wallowing and sucked (document.layers), but they just dropped it. They also did that with tablets and phones so Microsoft usually needs a successful example they can innovate on it seems, otherwise they fumble a bit.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Microsoft_Liquid_Motion" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Microsoft_Liquid_Motion</a>