Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 20th Mar 2008 17:52 UTC, submitted by WillM
"Microsoft today announced its first collaboration with the open source Eclipse Foundation by committing provide engineering support to allow the Eclipse Standard Widget Toolkit use Microsoft's Windows Presentation Foundation. The move aims to make it easier for Java developers to write applications that look and feel like native Windows Vista, according to Microsoft."
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2005-07-05
The whole point of Sun's lawsuit against Microsoft back in the 90s was that Microsoft was trying to add stuff to Java that would make Java programs look more like Windows programs, with the negative side effect that Java programs written for Windows would not run on other platforms.
I wonder why Microsoft didn't just do something like this back then; assuming that tying in this way will still allow Java programs written to look like Vista programs to run unaltered on other platforms?
This does beg the question, who in their right mind uses Java to write desktop applications? But that's another issue all together.