Sun Wins One Against Microsoft-And Why That's a Bad Thing

U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz handed Sun a win, Microsoft a setback, and all of us something new (or old) to talk about when he recently granted Sun the preliminary injunction it had sought in its private antitrust lawsuit against everyone's favorite Redmond-based computer monopolist.

The specific terms of the order have not yet been determined, but the gist is that Microsoft will be required to ship a Sun-compatible Java Virtual Machine with each copy of Windows.

Presumably, this will mean Microsoft shipping Sun's own Windows JVM with Windows, rather than Microsoft's own seriously outdated JVM, which, according Sun, has held back the spread of Java with its agedness. Of course, Microsoft's JVM has become outdated largely because Bill and Co. agreed to stop developing it as part of a settlement of a previous suit between the two companies.

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