Weeks before the software maker plans to reinstate Java in Windows XP, it shuts down a site that would automatically send Java software to Windows XP users. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 ...

In an about-face triggered by Sun's recent antitrust lawsuit, Microsoft says it will reinstate the ability to run Java programs in Windows XP. Stephen Shankland Former Principal Writer Stephen ...

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 ...

COMMENTARY--I was surprised the first time that I tried a site that required Java in Windows XP and was told that I needed to download the Java VM. The removal of JVM ...