As rzwitserloot commented in Reddit's Java community: Microsoft. This release is supporting a competitor in the OS space, who is shifting away from an ally on

As rzwitserloot commented in Reddit's Java community: Microsoft. This release is supporting a competitor in the OS space, who is shifting away from an ally on chip hardware, who also makes consumer electronics in direct competition with your hardware division, for a programming language which is in direct competition with your preferred language. It's been a strange but good year :-)