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 ...

Weeks before Microsoft plans to reinstate Java in Windows XP, it has shut down a site that would automatically send its Java software to Windows XP users. The company closed the install-on-demand ...

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 ...

Adding to a growing portfolio of enterprise software it offers as hosted services, Microsoft plans to add Java to its Windows Azure cloud service. “Having support for a Java platform on Azure is ...

Next week’s Patch Tuesday updates for Windows will include a monumental security fix. An update to Internet Explorer, for installation on PCs running Windows 7 Service Pack 1 or Windows 8.x, will ...

Microsoft on Monday released an updated version of Windows XP Service Pack 1 without the company's version of Java, complying with a court order that was stayed just hours later. An appeals court ...

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 ...

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 ...

Reversing last year’s hard-line stance, Microsoft Corp. today disclosed that an upcoming update to its Windows XP desktop operating system will include the software code necessary to run Java ...