Sun says it is "disappointed" by the company's decision to not include Java software in its Windows XP and Internet Explorer products.

Microsoft, which once was at loggerheads with Java founder Sun Microsystems over its distribution of Java, has been making amends with the Java community, even offering its own Microsoft Build of ...

Microsoft is offering advice on how to protect yourself from Java-based malware. The instructions are simple: either update it, disable it, or just uninstall it completely.

Adding to a growing portfolio of enterprise software it offers as hosted services, Microsoft plans to add Java to its Windows Azure cloud service.

Microsoft said the site, which would automatically send its Java software to Windows XP users, was removed to take an issue off the table in legal actions with Sun.

Recently, a Microsoft spokesperson told us, the VS Code team noticed that it was still difficult for some developers, including students and novices programmers, to set up their Java development ...

Reversing an earlier hard-line stance, Microsoft today disclosed that an upcoming update to its Windows XP operating system will include a Java virtual machine.

A federal appeals court gave Microsoft a reprieve yesterday by sweeping aside a lower court injunction that ordered the company to distribute the Java software of its rival Sun Microsystems ...

Under that settlement, Microsoft was permitted to distribute its version of Java in Windows 2000, a version that was based on the source code in version 1.1.4 of Sun's Java Developer Kit.

In the wake of a January legal settlement with Java owner Sun Microsystems, Microsoft plans to ship its Windows XP operating system without the code needed to run Java applications.

Java applets are widely used to make Web sites, such as banking and shopping sites, more dynamic. After a feud over Microsoft’s alleged misuse of Sun’s Java technology, the companies agreed in ...

Java should be considered a top software security threat, even more so than Adobe PDF files, according to Microsoft's announcement issued today.