Star Microsoft Forges First Official Link to Eclipse
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 jayson.knight on Thu 20th Mar 2008 19:16 UTC in reply to "Interesting"
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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.


That is incorrect. MS's implementation of Java wasn't able to pass Sun's compliancy test due to it having Windows only hooks...it had nothing to do with the way the software it created 'looked' or whatnot.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%2B%2B#Litigation_against_J.2...

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