To be fair, success of MSJVM wouldn’t have necessarily meant success for Sun. They made it as far as “Extend” and there was a whole lawsuit about it, culminatin

To be fair, success of MSJVM wouldn’t have necessarily meant success for Sun. They made it as far as “Extend” and there was a whole lawsuit about it, culminating around the time Windows XP SP1 was re-released as SP1a minus the MSJVM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Java_Virtual_Machine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Java_Virtual_Machine