Thanks to the 2001 Sun/Microsoft settlement regarding their legal dispute over the use of the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) in the Microsoft environment, many corporations may be facing a problem of Y2K ...

The phase-out of Microsoft's Java virtual machine from products such as Windows XP is being blamed for the inaccessibility of an Australian Internet banking site for some users. A online banking ...

The company 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. Michael ...

The long-running battle between Microsoft and Sun Microsystems over the Java programming language escalated Thursday, as Microsoft issued a terse response to a Sun ad campaign that ran last week.

Microsoft has announced the private preview of jaz, a new Java Virtual Machine (JVM) launcher tailored for cloud deployments on Azure. The tool aims to address long-standing challenges developers face ...

On Tuesday, the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant and its archrival, Sun Microsystems, announced an agreement under which Microsoft will continue support for the Microsoft's Java Virtual ...

In a mixed decision handed down Thursday, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed U.S. District Court Judge J. Frederick Motz's December 2002 ruling that supported Sun's copyright infringement ...

With nearly no explanation, Microsoft sent out an alert notifying customers that it was removing download information for 10 security patches “because Microsoft Java Virtual Machine is no longer ...

Microsoft's acquisition of Java performance analysis and monitoring firm jClarity helps optimize Azure for Java workloads, and further backs up Microsoft's claims to bring all kinds of workloads to ...

Software from Oracle that converts a program in Java bytecode (intermediate language) into machine language and executes it. The Java Virtual Machine (JVM) is the runtime engine of the Java Platform, ...