What I infer Microsoft as having done at the time is, they looked at the growing industry of rich multimedia applications, the internet and the web browser. One of the most well known examples was Microsoft Encarta, which was a project launched and promoted before Microsoft entered the browser wars. In response to this many corporations began media projects that could have existed in a browser, but instead they did them natively and shipped them on CD's. The importance of a browser was simply not obvious for the purpose of displaying what many thought would primarily be a kind of magazine or book viewer. A browser was innately slower and more cumbersome, it innately had major security issues due to its ability to stream content from any source.
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Of having a window which could stream any image, stream any text, stream any code over the web from any source and render it.
In the early 90's as the concept of the internet and the web were proliferating, most corporations at the time did not understand the importance of a browser. Pretty odd phrase? Let me explain what I mean. The 'Encarta' equivalent of the Metaverse.