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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 altogether.
The reinstatement is a partial victory for Java inventor and Microsoft rival Sun Microsystems, which in the 1990s had hoped people would use the cross-platform language to write programs capable of running on any computer, regardless of the operating system used by the machine.
Jim Cullinan, Microsoft's lead product manager for Windows, said Microsoft will ship its own JVM, written in 1997 and based on version 1.1.4 of Java (EEKS! Get with the times MS! :P). Sun wants Microsoft to ship the more modern version, currently 1.4. Sun offers a download option on its Web page.
News source: C|Net
Download: Get Java 1.4
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 altogether.
The reinstatement is a partial victory for Java inventor and Microsoft rival Sun Microsystems, which in the 1990s had hoped people would use the cross-platform language to write programs capable of running on any computer, regardless of the operating system used by the machine.
Jim Cullinan, Microsoft's lead product manager for Windows, said Microsoft will ship its own JVM, written in 1997 and based on version 1.1.4 of Java (EEKS! Get with the times MS! :P). Sun wants Microsoft to ship the more modern version, currently 1.4. Sun offers a download option on its Web page.
News source: C|Net Download: Get Java 1.4
The five circular floors atop the towers will include two revolving restaurant floors (one 'a la carte' International cuisine, one International buffet cuisine), two revolving tourist observation platforms with the fifth being the conference center for the 11 story ‘boutique hotel’ in the form of a pyramid. (For example, Hyatt-In-The Sky)
A total of 111 floors rise above the sidewalks of Lower Manhattan.
The below-grade service areas (seven story's) and subway lines will extend under the entire site, above which, the domed enclosure of the Biosphere will accommodate commercial, residential, entertainment and related functions, including convention facilities, concert, opera, and theater halls along with recreation areas.
Within the Biosphere there will be 2833 living trees planted. Each living tree will be named and a plaque set at its base as a living memorial to those who lost their lives on September 11th, 2001.
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