Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

Microsoft is planning to make available software for linking Java programs to its database software. The Redmond, Wash., behemoth said Tuesday that it will sell software that allows Java programs to ...

Microsoft said it would include its own Java software in the Service Pack 1 update to Windows XP due late this summer. In the long term, though, the company plans to remove Java from Windows ...

Microsoft will continue to support its Java virtual machine through September 2004, a nine-month extension that will make it easier for customers to find substitutes for the software. The extension ...

Microsoft used to consider open source software to be a bad thing. But, as the song goes, that was yesterday. Today, Microsoft is a company on a mission to build as solid a reputation as possible for ...

Reversing last year’s hard-line stance, Microsoft Corp. today disclosed that an upcoming update to its Windows XP desktop operating system will include the software code necessary to run Java ...

Microsoft announced this morning that it was acquiring jClarity, a service designed to tune the performance of Java applications. It will be doing that on Azure from now on. In addition, the company ...

Users of Microsoft’s Java Virtual Machine have an extra three years to drop the software and migrate to Microsoft’s .Net or a competing Java product following the company’s broad deal with Sun early ...

It’s been a long time since Microsoft brewed its own Java. But now it’s back, with the Microsoft Build of OpenJDK, fit and finished for running in the Azure cloud. A couple of weeks ago an anonymous ...

Microsoft Corp.’s lawyers yesterday pecked away at Sun Microsystems Inc.’s claim that it needs a judge to level the Web services playing field, suggesting that Sun’s actions — rather than Microsoft’s ...

Microsoft has joined the OpenJDK project to contribute small bug fixes and backports and learn how to be good Java citizens Microsoft has climbed aboard the OpenJDK project to help with the ...

You'd think I'd have seen it coming. All the signs were there. There was the day Microsoft announced that it had joined the OpenJDK project back in 2019. Then there ...