Users of Microsoft’s Java Virtual Machine have an extra three years to drop the software and migrate to Microsoft’s .Net or a competing Java product following the company’s broad deal with Sun early ...

A federal appeals court dealt a legal setback to Sun Microsystems on Thursday, tossing out most of a preliminary injunction requiring Microsoft to carry its rival's ...

Microsoft received a reprieve on Monday from a court order requiring the company to ship Sun Microsystems' Java software. Earlier in the day, Microsoft had said that ...

Microsoft has announced general availability (GA) of the Microsoft Build of OpenJDK, the open-source version of the Java development kit (JDK). The release follows the April preview of the Microsoft ...

In a move that could mean serious competition for Oracle in the Java space, Microsoft is previewing its own build of OpenJDK, a freely available, long-term support distribution of open source Java.

It’s been a long time since Microsoft brewed its own Java. But now it’s back, with the Microsoft Build of OpenJDK, fit and finished for running in the Azure cloud. A couple of weeks ago an anonymous ...