Microsoft revives Java in Windows
In an about-face, Microsoft said Tuesday that it will reinstate the ability to run Java programs in Windows XP.
Microsoft said it would include its own Java software in the Service Pack 1 update to Windows XP due late this summer. In the long term, though, the company plans to remove Java from Windows altogether.
The reinstatement is a partial victory for Java inventor and Microsoft rival Sun Microsystems, which in the 1990s had hoped people would use the cross-platform language to write programs capable of running on any computer, regardless of the operating system used by the machine. [ZDNet]
As usual MS has to do it in a way that puts their interest ahead of the legal issues. This is just another reason why they can not be trusted with anything other than a highly monitored and restrictive remedy in the Anti-Trust case.
Note the fact that MS will be putting their own VM back into XP and not the 'official' VM produced by Sun. In typical MS fashion they bend, and slap the other side at the same time. This is why they are so disliked and distrusted by other companies. This whole round with SUN is about the fact that MS had to take a cross-platform language and chage it to run only on Windows. Now they are marching back to the same place, and you can bet that this will not satisfy Sun...mj
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With all the other things going on, I have also been enjoying playing 
