In a move that could mean serious competition for Oracle in the Java space, Microsoft is previewing its own build of OpenJDK, a freely available, long-term support distribution of open source Java.

Microsoft used to consider open source software to be a bad thing. But, as the song goes, that was yesterday. Today, Microsoft is a company on a mission to build as solid a reputation as possible for ...

Newfound commitment to the Java platform includes releases of Microsoft Build for OpenJDK in May and Language Support for Java on Visual Studio Code in October. Looking to deepen its investment in ...

After only a few years, Microsoft’s free Visual Studio Code has become one of the most popular code editors on the market. One of VS Code’s advantages is its flexibility. This flexibility does come ...

Microsoft on Monday released an updated version of Windows XP Service Pack 1 without the company's version of Java, complying with a court order that was stayed just hours later. An appeals court ...

A federal appeals court dealt a legal setback to Sun Microsystems on Thursday, tossing out most of a preliminary injunction requiring Microsoft to carry its rival's ...

Microsoft's acquisition of Java performance analysis and monitoring firm jClarity helps optimize Azure for Java workloads, and further backs up Microsoft's claims to bring all kinds of workloads to ...