Microsoft has acquired a London startup billed as the leading contributor to the AdoptOpenJDK project in a bid to increase Java workloads performance on its Azure cloud. The No. 2 cloud computing ...

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 ...

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 today announced the acquisition of jClarity, a UK-based provider software performance and analytics solutions and a leading contributor to the AdoptOpenJDK project.

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?

Microsoft is looking to develop and acquire more Java application diagnostics know-how, especially where technology has proven useful for managing live production environments in the cloud.

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 ...