[Gllug] MS XP

[William Palfreman]

I thought Microsoft had lost their Java licence from Sun, and had to
remove Java (1.2?) support from their products over the next few years?  
IIRC this was about Microsoft producing an implementation for which code
would only work on that (Microsoft) implementation.  Therefore it was not
cross-platform with other Java implementations, therefore could not be
called Java.  I understood all this C#ness was in response to that - "Well
we're not playing any more".

-- 
W. Palfreman.

On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Ian Baillie wrote:

> There is an article on Microsoft not embedding Java support in Windows
> XP www.silicon.com
> 
> One paragraph which may be of interest is:
> 
> "We feel customers and the industry has moved on from v1.4 but we are
> not embedding Java as we aren't advocating it as a key driver for
> business. People see the value in open standards like XML. Java still
> remains proprietary. We don't believe Java is the platform for writing
> XML services."
> 
> Should this read, "People see the value in open standards."?
> 
> 


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