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MS Must Ship Java With Windows Within 120 Days

Posted by timothy on from the but-at-least-it's-not-micromanagement dept.

Suppafly writes "Cnet is reporting that a federal judge on Wednesday ordered Microsoft to begin shipping Sun Microsystems' Java with the Windows operating system within 120 days, after the companies fought over implementing a ruling he made last month."

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  1. Re:Its about time by Shalda · · Score: 3, Funny

    No, this is a bad thing. I (unfortunately) support a program that only works on the bastardized version of Java that Microsoft ships. If they start shipping the "proper" Sun JVM, I'm going to have no end of problems.

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  2. Ok, now where's the CLR by zjbs14 · · Score: 2, Funny
    So when is the Microsoft CLR shipping with Solaris?

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  3. In other news by JustAnOtherCodeSerf · · Score: 2, Funny

    A warehouse in Siberia recieves 3 million coppies of Windows 3.11 (all running java). A Microsoft spokesman is over heard saying "OH! you meant ship it _to_ someone?!"

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  4. Re:Which version of Java? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    no, its not 1.1.4, its 1.1.4.lets.bend.the. specs

  5. Re:Its about time by koh · · Score: 2, Funny

    Fantastic. The XP autoupdate feature can even be assigned to the task. That would be reeeaaaaally nice to global bandwidth, given the size of the JRE package...

    Judges, please be careful when you rule things out... You may be granted what you ruled ;)

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  6. Re:MS Java *is* Java, but way outdated by I+Am+The+Owl · · Score: 2, Funny
    some imaginary operating system promising Windows compatibility, but when you actually try it, you find it only supports Windows up to 3.1.

    Stop beating around the bush and just say "Linux". Sheesh.

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