Having introduced its Modern Web Application (MWA) pattern for Java developers late last year, Microsoft is now promoting the cloud-centric concept further by highlighting the benefits of the ...

Microsoft announced this morning that it was acquiring jClarity, a service designed to tune the performance of Java applications. It will be doing that on Azure from now on. In addition, the ...

Adding to a growing portfolio of enterprise software it offers as hosted services, Microsoft plans to add Java to its Windows Azure cloud service.

Microsoft said the site, which would automatically send its Java software to Windows XP users, was removed to take an issue off the table in legal actions with Sun.

Microsoft pulls Java from download page Weeks before the software maker plans to reinstate Java in Windows XP, it shuts down a site that would automatically send Java software to Windows XP users.

Java should be considered a top software security threat, even more so than Adobe PDF files, according to Microsoft's announcement issued today.

Microsoft, which once was at loggerheads with Java founder Sun Microsystems over its distribution of Java, has been making amends with the Java community, even offering its own Microsoft Build of ...

Microsoft is hoping that the vastly improved Visual Studio.Net development environment plus superb support for Web services will prevent defections. And Java programmers? Why not give it a shot?

Java applets are widely used to make Web sites, such as banking and shopping sites, more dynamic. After a feud over Microsoft’s alleged misuse of Sun’s Java technology, the companies agreed in ...