Downloading Java 1.4.1...

Valerie Sutton sutton at SIGNWRITING.ORG
Mon Jun 2 01:57:39 UTC 2003


Poor Windows people.....grrrrrrrr... ;-(

Val ;-)



On Sunday, June 1, 2003, at 06:53 PM, Dan Parvaz wrote:

>> I am a little surprised that Windows XP doesn't have a way to be
>> automatically updated?
>
> XP does, but the updates are restricted to their systems software.
> Remember the legal fisticuffs between Sun and Microsoft when it came to
> Java? Bill Gates is not a huge fan of virtual machines that encourage
> cross-platform software. So in Windows land, I believe that updating
> the JRE is a user's responsibility.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dan.
>



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