Microsoft will extend support for its Java Virtual Machine in Microsoft products until the end of 2007. The company posted a notice on its developer Web site April 8 indicating that Microsoft and Sun ...

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 ...

The company will continue to support its Java Virtual Machine through September 2004, a nine-month extension that will make it easier for customers to find substitutes for the software. Michael ...

On Tuesday, the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant and its archrival, Sun Microsystems, announced an agreement under which Microsoft will continue support for the Microsoft's Java Virtual ...

Microsoft and Sun Microsystems this week are making moves in Java, with Sun looking to boost the platform and Microsoft attempting to lure developers away from it. Microsoft has made public the beta ...

Just because Microsoft ended up paying Sun Microsystems $20m (£13m) to settle their 4-year-old suit over the Java programming language doesn't mean Microsoft was the real loser in the spat. In fact, a ...

It’s been a long time since Microsoft brewed its own Java. But now it’s back, with the Microsoft Build of OpenJDK, fit and finished for running in the Azure cloud. A couple of weeks ago an anonymous ...

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In an early sign of teamwork between the software giant and Sun, Microsoft will extend support for its JVM to 2007. But distribution has been halted, along with all enhancements and bug fixes. Martin ...