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| Time: 00:00 EST/05:00 GMT | News Source: ActiveWin.com | Posted By: Robert Stein | ||
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Due to a settlement agreement reached in January 2001, Microsoft is phasing out the Microsoft Virtual Machine from its products. As of December 15th, 2003, we will phase out several product families, and remove the Microsoft Virtual Machine from others. The major product families that will no longer be available are:
Although these products will no longer be available for distribution from Microsoft, they can still be used in accordance with the terms of your MSDN Subscription license agreement. |
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| #1 By 2960 (156.80.64.137) at Monday, December 08, 2003 08:31:00 AM |
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The Office 2000 drop is going to cause a stink with corporations.
TL |
| #2 By 20 (24.173.210.58) at Monday, December 08, 2003 10:28:41 AM |
| MapPoint 2002 and OfficeXP... dang. Those are recent. Damned MS Java VM... hopefully this will be the last dying cough for it and we'll never hear from it again. MS learned their lesson: Java == bad. .NET all the way now :) |
| #3 By 2 (67.165.97.4) at Monday, December 08, 2003 01:54:55 PM |
| E-mail me TL: bobstein@activewin.com |
| #4 By 12071 (203.185.215.149) at Monday, December 08, 2003 10:20:05 PM |
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#2 You're right, MS did learn a very good lesson:
Java (under anyone else's control) == BAD Java (under their own control, optimised for their OS) == GOOD #3 That "bellyaching" was Sun not wanting Microsoft to take control of Java... did you really expect them to react differently? Would Microsoft have done things differently if their positions were swapped? Also I can understand having to phase out Windows 98 due to the VM, but why Office 2000? MapPoint 2002? SQL Server 7? etc.... How did these use the VM? Or is Microsoft taking this opportunity to phase out a few other older applications and just doing it all under the "Sun made us do this" umbrella? |
| #5 By 20 (67.9.179.51) at Monday, December 08, 2003 11:53:48 PM |
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#6: No, Java == bad all the way 'round :) Even J# is an abomination, but I guess at least it serves to help convert people to .NET who will eventually move to C# which is GOOD(tm).
As for your 2nd part, well, Sun could've taken a cue from MS instead of sitting in their ivory tower, but look where they're at now. Innovation (if ever it were that) in/with Java is stymied, all the app servers stink and are blown away embarassingly by .NET. The Java world had to be dragged kicking and screaming into the XML and Web Services world where they still fight against it heartily, etc, etc, etc. |
