The battle between Sun and Microsoft over inclusion of JRE in Windows wages on. At stake: middleware supremacy -- and the key strategic decisions that your business are facing now.

Microsoft is offering advice on how to protect yourself from Java-based malware. The instructions are simple: either update it, disable it, or just uninstall it completely.

Sun escalates its battle for software supremacy with Microsoft, filing a lawsuit that claimed the software maker made Windows XP incompatible with Sun's Java language.

Under that settlement, Microsoft was permitted to distribute its version of Java in Windows 2000, a version that was based on the source code in version 1.1.4 of Sun's Java Developer Kit.

Sun says it is "disappointed" by the company's decision to not include Java software in its Windows XP and Internet Explorer products.

Adding to a growing portfolio of enterprise software it offers as hosted services, Microsoft plans to add Java to its Windows Azure cloud service.

Microsoft signed the Oracle Contributor Agreement last week, which means Redmond has officially joined the OpenJDK project. Bruno Borges, product manager for Java in Microsoft's Developer Division ...

Microsoft, which once was at loggerheads with Java founder Sun Microsystems over its distribution of Java, has been making amends with the Java community, even offering its own Microsoft Build of ...

Microsoft Build of OpenJDK could set up the company to compete with Oracle in the Java distribution space.