Microsoft announces updates of its Java tooling in its Visual Studio Code extension and the Azure Toolkit for IntelliJ, showcasing a host of new features.

Microsoft Build of OpenJDK could set up the company to compete with Oracle in the Java distribution space.

Aside from Java support in Azure, which prompted the company to buy Java support services company jClarity in August, Microsoft supports Java development in its open source Visual Studio Code editor.

Microsoft is continuing to push its Java tooling across its properties, with two main targets being Visual Studio Code and the Azure cloud.

Microsoft joined the Java Community Process (JCP), which governs the Java language evolution. This continues Microsoft's embrace of Java, such as having its own OpenJDK distribution and constantly ...

Microsoft is furthering its big Java push -- marked by last year's debut of the Java Engineering Group in its Developer Division -- by porting OpenJDK for Windows 10 on Arm (AArch64)-based devices.

Microsoft's popular open-source, cross-platform code editor, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), has received an update of its new project view, better known as the Java Projects Explorer.

At Oracle Code One 2019, the Microsoft vs. IBM debate took a sharp turn in one direction. Microsoft has laid major inroads to the Java community within the past 18 months, while IBM seems to backtrack ...

The software giant submits a new Java-like software programming language to an industry standards group, hoping to succeed where rival Sun Microsystems has failed.

Sun Microsystems and Microsoft have settled their long-running lawsuit over Microsoft's use of Sun's Java software.