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Originally posted by Kyle Fenton
They say if you want Java than people will have to download it. But I know a bunch of people on modem connections, who don't care about special features. And they will just skip it.
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Interestingly enough, it seems that this is only for clean installations of XP...here's a quote I found in one of the articles Joel posted...
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From ZDNet
It is worth noting that this non-Java support issue really affects only clean installations of Windows XP. Systems built by OEMs will likely include the JVM (according to Microsoft). In addition, systems upgraded from previous versions of Windows will continue to include Java support.
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From the sound of this, upgrades won't wipe out the existing Java support, and my guess is that for the time being, most major OEMs will include at least some version of the JVM for the sole reason that many of the computers being bought today are for people to get out on the Internet with, and until this new technology (Microsoft's .NET) is more widely accepted, they don't want people calling and complaining that they can't do this or that because their computer won't run the Java.
On a side note, as it was mentioned earlier, Microsoft can only distribute an old version of the JVM due to the terms of the settlement they reached with Sun. What is more advantageous from their standpoint, since they are billing XP as "a whole new Windows"...bundling obsolete software from somebody else, or integrating in support for their new software, that competes with that "somebody else?"