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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Member since:2005-07-06
Indeed... people try to make it sound like the MS lawsuit was about MS wanting to extend java. In reality the lawsuit wasn't so much about that as it was MS's desire to extend it in ways that caused Sun compatible Java apps to fail when run on MS VMs.
MS refused to fix the issues, and thus the lawsuit.
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2005-07-06
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...