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Microsoft gives new life to Java
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Posted by: Tweaker
Microsoft said it would include its own Java software in the Service Pack 1 update to Windows XP due late this summer. In the long term, though, the company plans to remove Java from Windows altogether.
The reinstatement is a partial victory for Java inventor and Microsoft rival Sun Microsystems, which in the 1990s had hoped people would use the cross-platform language to write programs capable of running on any computer, regardless of the operating system used by the machine.
This is just a token effort that has the MS Antitrust suit remedy hearings as its motive. It is a correction in only a very limited sense. Moreover, putting it back into XP does not mean much. Is it going back into Windows Update so that all Windows users--95, 98, Me, and 2000 can also use it effectively? Including an old version of the software does little to guarantee interoperability with modern Java applications. The MS Java effort was not good substitute for the real thing anyway. How ironic that this attempt to please the courts is made with an MS Java stand-in that originally also played some role in the embrace, extend, and extinguish of Java to begin with.
More on this here
Source: C/NET News
Posted by: SKYHN
Will the WinXP SP1 also include the Nimda Virus? 
Posted by: Tweaker
Now that would be all MS would need! 
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