Java goes back to the PC James Gosling, who helped create Sun Microsystems' Java software, is working to bring it back to its desktop computing roots.

After signing similar deals with Dell and HP earlier this year, Sun announces that several other PC makers will begin shipping machines loaded with its Java software.

Mojang said late Wednesday that the legacy, PC-centric Java version of Minecraft will now require a Microsoft account, a decision Microsoft says it’s making for security reasons and to ensure ...

You'll need a Microsoft account to download Minecraft but that's no sweat to do. Choosing between the two versions, Java and ...

Oracle's Java plugin for browsers is a notoriously insecure product. Over the past 18 months, the company has released 11 updates, six of them containing critical security fixes. With each update ...

Minecraft Java Edition players can only cross-play with people on the same version, which is relegated to PC, Mac, and Linux.

The original Java edition of Minecraft for PC crossed the impressive 30 million copies sold milestone today. This version of the sandbox title has been out for over seven years now.

A campaign to force PC vendors into shipping machines running a purist form of Java has attracted 3,253 signatories, but no major PC vendors, writes Lisa Kelly. The JavaReady standard is a Java ...