Google shows 17 million hits for "Java" versus 1 million for "Visual
Basic".  I'm sure Microsoft knows what it is doing, but distancing itself
from this much software development activity may backfire.

Frank Gribbin

On Mon, 13 Aug 2001 12:05:04 EDT, Wirt Atmar <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>One set of people who probably won't be showing up for the lunch is any one
>from Microsoft. The following is from today's NY Times:
>
>========================================
>
>Microsoft says it decided not to include the Java software in Windows XP
>because a long-running legal dispute with Sun Microsystems, which the two
>companies settled earlier this year, prevented Microsoft from gaining
access
>to Sun's recent technology. "Basically, they froze our ability to innovate
in
>that space," Mr. Cullinan said.
>
>Richard Green, Sun's general manager for Java software, disputed the
>Microsoft account. "I'll license the current version of Java to Microsoft
>anytime, under the same conditions as all the other licensees," Mr. Green
>said.
>
>Sun sued Microsoft in 1997 for violating its Java license agreement.
>Microsoft said it had merely fine- tuned Java to run better on the Windows
>operating system. But Sun alleged that Microsoft's version was a "polluted"
>variant of Java, which illegally undermined the ability of Java programs to
>run well on different operating systems.
>
>As part of the settlement with Sun, Microsoft agreed to pay $20 million.
>"We're not touching Java anymore," Mr. Cullinan said.
>
>The PC makers must also decide what to do about Java. Most are still
>considering their options. Compaq will not include Java technology, said
>David Albritton, a company spokesman. Users who want it, he said, can
>download it from the Web. The software, called the Java virtual machine, is
>about five megabytes in size and takes 15 to 20 minutes to download over a
>standard 56- kilobyte modem.
>

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