Word: java
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...Microsoft's long arms around it. He launched the Microsoft Network and--over the objections of America Online, CompuServe and the U.S. Justice Department--bundled it with Internet-access software in Windows 95. He dropped his resistance to a number of de facto Internet standards, including Sun Microsystem's Java. Meanwhile, he began securing high-profile content to put on his own network, luring commentator Michael Kinsley from cnn to start an online political magazine and purchasing the Bettmann Archives, one of the world's greatest collections of historical photographs. Last week he appeared in an electronic press conference...
...individual stocks rather than diversified funds can watch fortunes change in minutes. Netscape had been up 24 points early in the week, when it was hit by a double whammy: the Smith Barney evaluation and the appearance of a new favorite. On Thursday, Microsoft announced it was adopting the Java programming language designed for the Internet by Sun Microsystems. The market saw it as a threat to Netscape, and the stock tumbled. Meanwhile, Sun Microsystems closed up 33/8, at 93-1/8. Still, Netscape has its defenders. Says Wien: "When any stock has done as well as Netscape over such...
...possible to see and use their products. What Microsoft hopes will happen is that people will go to their site and see all the cool things that you can do with their Explorer browser that you can't do in Netscape." Microsoft announced that it would license Sun Microsystems' Java software, hedging its bet that its competing publishing software won't gain wide acceptance on the Internet. Quittner says that both decisions signal Microsoft's acceptance of the Internet's trend toward an open exchange of information. "Everybody is moving toward opening up their sites and away from these sort...
...Trojan Horses do not have to erase your hard drive to be destructive. I could, for instance, write a Java program which, when accessed, sent 100 anonymous e-mail messages to a person I detested. There are other creative possibilities as well...
...cost of powerful and convenient new features is security. For most (including myself), the utility of the World Wide Web and Java is worth the tradeoff in security...