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Microsoft Ordered to Carry Java

Posted by timothy on Monday December 23, 2002 @11:25AM from the macro-management dept.

An anonymous reader was the 17,232th person to submit that "Microsoft has been ordered to include Sun's Java runtime in Windows. Coverage from AP (via Yahoo), Reuters (via news.com), and, let's say, the BBC."

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Re:Hilarious! by LineNoiz · 2002-12-23 11:33 · Score: 0, Redundant

I thought it funny too... Shouldn't it be 17,232nd?

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Great except... by MtViewGuy · 2002-12-23 12:14 · Score: 2, Redundant

...Sun's own Java VM is dog-slow in many ways. I've tried JVM 1.4.1 on Windows 98 and when it loads the first time and/or run any Java applets it takes a long time to run. It's better in Windows 2000 Pro and Windows XP, but I still think Sun needs to speed up their Java VM to better work with Windows 98 to Windows XP.

Now, if the judge's order specified any Java VM that meets Sun's compatibility tests, maybe Micosoft could use IBM's excellent Java implementation instead.