Sun says it is "disappointed" by the company's decision to not include Java software in its Windows XP and Internet Explorer products. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

Users of Microsoft’s Java Virtual Machine have an extra three years to drop the software and migrate to Microsoft’s .Net or a competing Java product following the company’s broad deal with Sun early ...

Microsoft is quietly pulling back support for Java in its new products, dealing a new blow to a rival technology that played a starring role in the software giant's continuing antitrust battle with ...

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

Microsoft gave notice Thursday that it removed 10 security patch downloads, all associated with Microsoft Java Virtual Machine (JVM) technology. The bulletins addressed bugs that could use Java-based ...

A federal appeals court dealt a legal setback to Sun Microsystems on Thursday, tossing out most of a preliminary injunction requiring Microsoft to carry its rival's ...

The past 18 months of speeches, white papers, PowerPoint presentations, and monkey dances leading up to the launch of Microsoft .Net have been little more than a long and somewhat uneven Super Bowl ...

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

A federal appeals court gave Microsoft a reprieve yesterday by sweeping aside a lower court injunction that ordered the company to distribute the Java software of its rival Sun Microsystems. Microsoft ...