I think that is glossing over some important details. Sun sued Microsoft repeatedly, and eventually stopped licensing Java to Microsoft. "Upgrading the embedded

I think that is glossing over some important details. Sun sued Microsoft repeatedly, and eventually stopped licensing Java to Microsoft. "Upgrading the embedded JVM" was not a user-friendly mandate... think of how annoying "upgrade" or "new version available" notices are today... now consider the same over a 14.4k modem. And finally, most Java applets sucked. Very few were "popular". They looked weird, non-native, had unfamiliar icons and menus, and were often slow.