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In the early days, Microsoft was licensed to develop a JVM for Windows. It shipped as part of Internet Explorer, it probably ended up on the majority of Windows
by cmiles74 6y ago
In the early days, Microsoft was licensed to develop a JVM for Windows. It shipped as part of Internet Explorer, it probably ended up on the majority of Windows machines at the time.
Over time, I believe Microsoft started to implement Windows-specific functions that _only_ worked on their implementation. Eventually Sun sued and I think that's when they lost and had to re-name the product.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Java_Virtual_Machine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Java_Virtual_Machine
- marcosdumay 6y agoFrom the wiki, the lawsuit happened on the following year. I really doubt MS has gone from not working with Java, to distributing it, to making it non-compliant, to getting sued and losing in about an year. The author was probably misinformed, and that's a very likely reason for the overreaction of the PR dept.