Microsoft, a longtime foe of Sun, acknowledged this week that it will not pre-install the JVM with its upcoming OS upgrade, Windows XP, and its new browser, Internet Explorer 6.0.

Windows users must upgrade to Windows Vista or later to install Java 8.” It didn’t take long for the media to report on the story, with headlines like “Java support over for Windows XP”, “Windows XP: ...

Sun Microsystems announced plans Monday to make its new Java Virtual Machine for Microsoft's Windows XP available as a free download. The new Java Virtual Machine (JVM) allows Java applications ...

He took particular care to point out that users who download JDK 7 from java.oracle.com or java.com will continue to be able to install on Windows XP. " [W]e expect that JDK 7 will continue to work on ...

Windows XP users will continue to receive automatic security updates for Java 7 until at least April 2015, when public updates for this version of Java are scheduled to stop, he said.

Users who want to run Java-based client-side applications will have to download the component from Microsoft’s Web site. Windows XP is slated to ship this fall.

Customers also will be able to download and install any other JVM, including Sun's version, Kasiviswanathan said. He acknowledged that the decision to leave the Java code out of Windows XP was ...

July 18, 2001 -- Microsoft Corp. will not include its JVM in Windows XP or subsequent operating systems as part of a phaseout of the JVM following a January out-of-court settlement with Sun ...

Windows XP users will continue to receive automatic security updates for Java 7 until at least April 2015, when public updates for this version of Java are scheduled to stop, he said.

While the Windows XP Release Candidate 1 offers the option to install the software, Java supporters said the extra steps to download the 5M-byte program and get it to run safely on a computer ...