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Java Thrown Back in Windows, For Now

Posted by timothy on from the refenestration dept.

darnellmc writes: "According to this News.com article, Microsoft has decided to include their JVM in the next Windows XP service pack. They are doing this in an attempt to avoid Sun's recent lawsuit against them for anti-trust violations. I wonder if the recent decision allowing the nine states' suit to continue had anything to do with this? Of course it did. MS plans not to have the JVM in future versions of Windows though."

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  1. REPENT NOW! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    GOD HATES FAGS!

  2. Re:Old java by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Actually, you should just become a troll and start posting some ASCII goatse pics.

  3. Re:Wait, I'm confused... by Jester998 · · Score: 1, Troll

    "or we're going to have to give up using Java completely"

    Sounds like a plan. Java sucks, PHP and Perl rule. Did I mention that Java sucks? :)

    - Jester

  4. Re:This will hurt Java by Coulson · · Score: -1, Troll

    To give Microsoft some credit, the MS JVM is a solid, fast implementation. Its speed and memory performance are better than the modern Sun J2SE jre. Why? Tighter integration with the OS to be sure (it's good to be da king!). HotSpot is excellent for running server-side java (J2EE), and of course it includes all the new class libraries from Java 1.4, but for most client-side apps the MSJVM is good enough.

  5. Re:This will hurt Java by Citizen+of+Earth · · Score: 0, Troll

    Write once, run anywhere... NOT!

  6. Good business strategy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    That's why MS is still growing and Sun's going down the shitter.

    Maybe if they got rid of sniveling McNealy and found someone who actually knows how to play the game.

  7. Two things... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    One, have any of you ever compared the VM to Java in terms of reliability, stability, and speed. VM kicks it's ass in every catagory, significantly and without a doubt.

    Second, why is Java so important to you folks. IMHO Java is a slow, difficult, crash prone language that very few people can program correctly in. I HATE it and avoide it as much as possible. It never performs well, even on top end hardware, and if the coder was your every day joe in some programing cube dog farm, it will most likely slow your computer down to a memory baked crawl just before crashing or locking your hardware... that's under ANY operating system. Java SUCKS.