Weeks before the software maker plans to reinstate Java in Windows XP, it shuts down a site that would automatically send Java software to Windows XP users. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

Sun Microsystems and Microsoft have settled their long-running lawsuit over Microsoft's use of Sun's Java software. Under the settlement, Microsoft (msft) will pay Sun (sunw) $20 million and is ...

It’s been a long time since Microsoft brewed its own Java. But now it’s back, with the Microsoft Build of OpenJDK, fit and finished for running in the Azure cloud. A couple of weeks ago an anonymous ...

Microsoft has decided is enough is enough: Java-based malware sees no end and it's time to do something about it. The software giant points to two type-confusion vulnerabilities (CVE-2012-0507 and CVE ...

Adding to a growing portfolio of enterprise software it offers as hosted services, Microsoft plans to add Java to its Windows Azure cloud service. “Having support for a Java platform on Azure is ...