Microsoft Backs Off Java Legal Wording, According to a Report on CMP's TechWire (http://www.techwire.com)Technology News Site Also Features Analysis of the New Internet Domain Name Plan, Extensive MACWORLD CoveragePRNewswire Microsoft is rewording its Java licensing agreement to calm user fears that Java applications created with the company's Java development tools will be legally bound to run exclusively on the Windows family of operating systems, according to a report by CMP's CommunicationsWeek posted tonight on TechWire (http://www.techwire.com/). According to the report, the license change, which Microsoft officials have described as a legal technicality, comes as some large user organizations have balked at using Microsoft's Java SDK and Visual J++ to develop their Java-based applications, fearing that they would be locked into the Windows environment. The current licensing agreement prevents users of these products from legally developing platform-independent Java programs for the Web. TechWire also posted Sunday night several other significant technology news stories: -- Support appears to be dwindling for a proposal that expands the number
of top-level domains on the Internet and designates registration
authorities to assign them, according to CommunicationsWeek.
-- The configurations and details of major pieces of unannounced hardware
from HP, Digital Equipment and ALR are disclosed in several stories
from CommunicationsWeek and Computer Reseller News.
-- Extensive MACWORLD Expo coverage will also be appearing on TechWire,
including a Computer Reseller News report of a new Microsoft group
dedicated to Macintosh application development and a dangerously high-
level of inventory at Apple. Continuing coverage will include TechWire
staff stories as well as stories from dozens of other CMP journalists
covering the event.
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