Microsoft pulls Java from Windows
C|Net | at | by Mike
Microsoft on Monday released an updated version of Windows XP Service Pack 1 without the company's version of Java, complying with a court order that was stayed just hours later. Microsoft released Service Pack 1, the first major collection of Windows XP bug fixes, in September. The update added Microsoft's version of the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), which the company had decided not to ship with the operating system launched in October 2001. The revised service pack, version 1a, removes Microsoft's JVM, as ordered by a Baltimore court.
An appeals court issued a stay of that order late Monday, pending an appeal of the case. Despite the stay, a Microsoft representative said the company would continue to offer Service Pack 1a for download, in line with current plans to stop distributing its own version of JVM in its products.