Well, the tools may be awful, but designers are not easily persuaded to change their tools. Even today, Photoshop trumps Illustrator in popularity. There is no

Well, the tools may be awful, but designers are not easily persuaded to change their tools. Even today, Photoshop trumps Illustrator in popularity. There is no workflow from PSD to HTML other than a secondary market of slicers. If MS wished to succeed, it had to bring the same familiar workflow into the process. The workflow was very dev-centric, and that's why I think it failed to take off as MS would like. +1