"Robert C. Leif, Ph.D." <rleif@rleif.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.995522784.25875.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org...
> From: Bob Leif
> To: All
>
> Evidently, Sun's control of Java gave Microsoft the opening it needed.
>
> First there was C, then C++, then Java, and now maybe C#. We Ada people
can
> watch and laugh. However, Java should have taught us the power of
marketing.
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> Microsoft pulls back support for Java, in blow to rival technology

MS doesn't really support Java since 1997 or 1998. The current MS Java
Machine shipped with MSIE is effectively '97 mangled Java 1.1 and has never
been updated since. The current version of Java is Java 2 v. 1.4, and users
who would like to run Java applications and applets needed to download JRE,
JDK or Java plug- in for a while.
So, it doesn't change anything. Indirectly, it may even *promote* Sun JVM,
because previously users who encountered Java 1.0 or Java 1.1 applets didn't
need to download it, and now they will. Given it's no more difficult to
install than most of other plug- ins, MS really achieves nothing.

Gary

>
> By John R. Wilke and Don Clark
> THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
>
> "PRERELEASE COPIES of Microsoft�s new Windows XP operating system, which
> goes on sale this fall, drop the software needed to run Java-based
programs.
> (MSNBC is a Microsoft-NBC joint venture). Java software is used to create
> some of the animated and interactive features of Web pages and hand-held
> devices; Web surfers using computers with Windows XP won�t see those
> features without loading additional software."
>
> http://www.msnbc.com/news/601794.asp#BODY
>
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