Well done to Oracle, which has successfully managed to confuse everyone about what the situation is regarding whether Java (a development platform with a long history of security holes) will continue ...

In a startling blow to cross-platform developers, Microsoft has announced it will not include support for the Java programming language in the upcoming Windows XP. After settling a lawsuit with Java ...

The new Java Virtual Machine (JVM) allows Java applications–from games to collaboration software–to run on Windows XP. Sun says the new JVM will also offer new multimedia and animation support as well ...

The next versions of the Java runtime which will ship in the middle of July will not run on Windows XP. How will this impact developers? Despite the fact that Microsoft ended support for Windows XP on ...

Sun just issued an update to Java that closes some critical security bugs. The latest and greatest is now version 6 update 17. This means that many Windows XP users, like myself, will be installing ...

The Redmond, Wash. software giant announced on Tuesday that it will include Java virtual machine as part of the Windows XP Service Pack due later this summer. The announcement is a reversal of another ...

I need to run two versions of Java on several Windows XP machines. One version (1.6.0_03) for use with Internet Explorer and one version (latest) for use with Firefox. I began by removing all versions ...