The deals to ship Sun's Java technology in all the PC makers' machines are a poke in the eye for Microsoft, which has been lackluster in its support for the software. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...

Thirty years ago, Java 1.0 revolutionized software development. Every Java demo featured a simple "Hello World" dialog window with the only available option: Java's Abstract Window Toolkit, the first ...

Try as they might, open source desktop apps never gained much ground against proprietary rivals -- and maybe they never will Fans of the open source desktop productivity suite OpenOffice.org breathed ...