Nope, with the likes of ActiveX they wanted more than just web browsing, they saw that net-delivered apps were the future. They just weren't as advanced/ambitio

Nope, with the likes of ActiveX they wanted more than just web browsing, they saw that net-delivered apps were the future. They just weren't as advanced/ambitious with their plans. Still, this will fail for Google as it did with MS, if that is indeed what they are trying to do.