In yet another round of Friday-afternoon security disclosures, Microsoft today (Feb. 22) admitted that it had fallen victim to the same Java-based malware attacks that plagued Twitter, Facebook ...

Sun escalates its battle for software supremacy with Microsoft, filing a lawsuit that claimed the software maker made Windows XP incompatible with Sun's Java language.

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.

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.

Microsoft is hoping that the vastly improved Visual Studio.Net development environment plus superb support for Web services will prevent defections. And Java programmers? Why not give it a shot?

Sun argues in its lawsuit that Microsoft has gained an unfair advantage by shipping Windows with an outdated version of Java that's inconsistent for its users. Windows is used by more than 90 ...

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

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

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 ...

Microsoft Corp. today divulged that it has acquired jClarity Ltd., a British provider of tools for Java software projects. Java is one of the most popular programming languages in the enterprise ...

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 ...