Microsoft Abandons Java
Sun Microsystems has said that Microsofts choice not to support the Java platform in Windows XP. That’s right. Microsoft in a quest for world domination has canned Java support in hopes of killing Java. Sun claims that it will not have a significant impact on Java [SiliconValley], but it will have an impact.
Microsoft has good reason to kill Java. Java is cross platform. It is available for every operating system. Java allows a programmer to write one program and any user on any computer with Java can run it. That goes against Microsofts principal. Microsoft wants everyone in the world using Microsoft Windows. That’s market domination for you. If Microsoft no longer supports Java, then programmers will need to re-write Java software in languages such as C++ and C# so that they can run in windows, then they would not be usable on the Mac and on other platforms. That would effectively cripple other platforms.
It would not only hurt other platforms but would cost businesses a ton of money. They would have to rewrite lots of software to become compatible with Windows XP, that would cost lots of money. In the mean time, that means that most chat and streaming stock tickers available online will not work, bad news for Windows users.
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