Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 20th Mar 2008 17:52 UTC, submitted by WillM
General Development "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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RE: Interesting
by IridiumAlly on Thu 20th Mar 2008 18:55 UTC in reply to "Interesting"
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This does beg the question, who in their right mind uses Java to write desktop applications?


The same people who would use .NET to write desktop applications. This is coming from experience.

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