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 ...

As the Sun vs. Microsoft battle over Java drags on, Windows developers wonder if it's time to write off J++ and adopt Microsoft's 'Java killer,' C#. As the legal battle between Microsoft and Sun ...

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 ...

Microsoft is quietly pulling back support for Java in its new products, dealing a new blow to a rival technology that played a starring role in the software giant's continuing antitrust battle with ...

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 ...

Microsoft received a reprieve on Monday from a court order requiring the company to ship Sun Microsystems' Java software. Earlier in the day, Microsoft had said that ...

In a move that could mean serious competition for Oracle in the Java space, Microsoft is previewing its own build of OpenJDK, a freely available, long-term support distribution of open source Java.

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 ...

Microsoft Corp. today divulged that it has acquired jClarity Ltd., a British provider of tools for Java software projects. Java is one of the most popular programming languages in the enterprise and ...

Newfound commitment to the Java platform includes releases of Microsoft Build for OpenJDK in May and Language Support for Java on Visual Studio Code in October. Looking to deepen its investment in ...

Microsoft used to consider open source software to be a bad thing. But, as the song goes, that was yesterday. Today, Microsoft is a company on a mission to build as solid a reputation as possible for ...