eh, this sounds more like an "embrace and ignore" situation (like IE6). The "extend" was about adding new features that were incompatible with the existing standard (which would in turn lead to the existing standard being "extinguished" because MS was so dominant that whatever they pushed would become the new defacto standard over whatever they "embraced" in the first place).
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It reminds me a lot of embrace, extend, extinguish employed by Microsoft.
Once they got platform adoption and popularity, it's like they stopped investing in the platform.
At least that's my perception as an outside user.
eh, this sounds more like an "embrace and ignore" situation (like IE6). The "extend" was about adding new features that were incompatible with the existing standard (which would in turn lead to the existing standard being "extinguished" because MS was so dominant that whatever they pushed would become the new defacto standard over whatever they "embraced" in the first place).