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michael
on from the embrace-the-borg dept.
rleyton writes: "javaworld has an article on Microsoft J#.net - offering developers a migration path to .net for their VJ++ projects. JDK 1.1.4, and Windows platform support only, of course..."
Microsoft offers yet another way for people to change from Java and into some kinda system which only works on Windows.
Why would anyone care ? Is there a lack of windows-only products from Microsoft ? Isn't that the default for everything they make ? Why would a nerd possibly care about possible ways to defeat portability ?
ack! Java 1.1.4?! This is completely unacceptable in my mind.
Java 1.2+ has improved greatly over 1.1.x: the collections API, better beans, drag'n'drop, very cool reference objects (e.g., weak references), better general performance, etc.
There is nothing (except themselves) stopping Microsoft from producing a Java compatible product. The injunction prevents them from using Sun's JAVA trademark.
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Microsoft offers yet another way for people to change from Java and into some kinda system which only works on Windows.
Why would anyone care ? Is there a lack of windows-only products from Microsoft ? Isn't that the default for everything they make ? Why would a nerd possibly care about possible ways to defeat portability ?
Java 1.2+ has improved greatly over 1.1.x: the collections API, better beans, drag'n'drop, very cool reference objects (e.g., weak references), better general performance, etc.
Sun even has a page detailing the differences between 1.1.x and 1.2.
Not only that, but 1.3+ has some nifty things over 1.2.x: timer (task), shutdown hooks, improved networking, etc.
There is nothing (except themselves) stopping Microsoft from producing a Java compatible product. The injunction prevents them from using Sun's JAVA trademark.
http://java.sun.com/lawsuit/index.html