Java on Windows, by court order
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on December 24, 2002 at 5:56:10 AM
That's right. The courts ordered that Microsoft can't force people to use their proprietary software instead of openly used standards (Such as Java). WinXP didn't have java right?
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This decision is a huge victory for consumers who will have the best, latest Java technology on their PCs, and it is a victory for software developers who will write applications to run on those PCs," Sun said in a statement. "The decision helps ensure that current, compatible Java technology will be included on every consumer desktop and put an end to Microsoft's practice of fragmenting the Java platform."