

In short, Microsoft feared and sought to impede the development of network effects that cross-platform technology like Netscape Navigator and Java might enjoy and use to challenge Microsoft's monopoly. Microsoft claimed that Microsoft wanted to kill Java in the marketplace. antitrust civil actions.Ī Memorandum of the United States in Support of Motion for Preliminary Injunction in the case of United States of America vs. Microsoft's proprietary extensions to Java were used as evidence in the United States v. Microsoft claimed to have the fastest Java implementation for Windows, although IBM also made that claim in 1999 and beat the Microsoft and Sun virtual machines in the JavaWorld Volano test. In 1998 a new release included the Java Native Interface which supplemented Microsoft's proprietary Raw Native Interface (RNI) and J/Direct.
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The Microsoft JVM won the PC Magazine Editor's Choice Awards in 19 for best Java support. This new distribution is based on OpenJDK without proprietary additions or extensions and adheres to the GPLv2 + Classpath Exception license. In ApMicrosoft announced its own Microsoft build of OpenJDK. In 2001, Microsoft settled the lawsuit with Sun and discontinued its Java implementation. antitrust civil actions, as an implementation of Microsoft's " Embrace, extend and extinguish" strategy. It was also named in the United States v. Sun Microsystems, the creator of Java, sued Microsoft in October 1997 for incompletely implementing the Java 1.1 standard. It was the fastest Windows-based implementation of a Java virtual machine for the first two years after its release. It was first made available for Internet Explorer 3 so that users could run Java applets when browsing on the World Wide Web. The Microsoft Java Virtual Machine ( MSJVM) is a discontinued proprietary Java virtual machine from Microsoft.

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