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Microsoft to reinstate Java in Windows XP SP1

Neowin · Jun 18, 2002 19:08 EDT with -1 comments

Thanks to xStainDx for this one:

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