Microsoft will offer the Java Standard Edition (Java SE) by the end of the year both as a stand-alone PaaS (platform as a service) and as component of a Windows Server IaaS (infrastructure as a ...

Microsoft’s OpenJDK build includes binaries for Java 11, and the company has also released an early access binary for Java 16 for Windows on ARM.

Microsoft today announced it has submitted a new Java-like software programming language to an industry standards group, hoping to succeed where rival and Java creator Sun Microsystems has failed.

Microsoft executives said the company also has no plans to include Java Virtual Machine in the next version of its Internet Explorer browser, IE 6.0, which is scheduled to be incorporated into ...

The Microsoft initiative in this market is called .Net, which is closely tied to Windows. Several other companies including Sun and I.B.M. are building middleware using Java.

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 ...

Sun argues in its lawsuit that Microsoft has gained an unfair advantage by shipping Windows with an outdated version of Java that's inconsistent for its users. Windows is used by more than 90 ...

Under the agreement announced Tuesday, Microsoft will no longerlicense from Sun any current or new versions of Java — aprogramming language Sun claims is used by 2.5 million softwaredevelopers ...

Microsoft is offering advice on how to protect yourself from Java-based malware. The instructions are simple: either update it, disable it, or just uninstall it completely.

Java, Sun's "write once, run anywhere" computer language, can run on many operating systems and devices, and is widely used on the Internet. In a 1997 lawsuit, Sun charged that Microsoft ...

But Java, which has been criticized for being slow, faces stiff competition not only from Microsoft but also Macromedia's Flash, which is less robust but considerably easier to program than Java.