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...What am I talking about? I'm talking about the fact that Windows XP, the next generation PC operating system which just entered its penultimate testing phase, has had its Java removed. Java is the plug-and-play web application that works on any machine. It is the code behind most of the animation on tens of thousands of websites out there. It is what, for many years, made the American flag flutter at whitehouse.gov, and examples don't get much more patriotic than that...
...Java is wholly owned, licensed and developed by Scott McNealy's Sun Microsystems, which just happens to be Bill Gates' nemesis. Microsoft and Sun had a little falling out a few years back when Microsoft tried to create what became known as a "polluted" version of Java, or one that Microsoft hoped it would soon be able to license itself (and leverage its Windows/Explorer monopoly in the hope of making programmers sign up for it). Not surprisingly, McNealy took Gates to court. The latter lost, and it cost the world's richest man a cool $20 million...
...fell far short of a full-throttle victory. The appeals court unanimously upheld Judge Jackson's finding that Microsoft is a monopoly "in its entirety." And it set out a laundry list of actions--from bullying computer makers into bundling its Internet browser to deceiving developers of the rival Java programming language--that broke federal antitrust...
MICROSOFT Gates back atop Forbes list as richest man; Ballmer has java in White House with Veep...
...affairs by showing the Yanks that Japan was a force. He hoped a quick victory in Hawaii would prompt the U.S. to petition for peace in the Pacific, which would allow expansionist Japan, already on the move in China, to pursue oil and other supplies in Sumatra, Borneo and Java. Japan felt it was under a tight deadline for invading those places. When it leapt, it did not want America butting...