The day Microsoft 'embraced and extended' Java

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Dec 6, 2007 7:31 PM EDT
Reg Developer; By Tim Anderson
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It's early December 1995 and it has been a heady few days for Java. IBM and Adobe Systems have agreed to license this strange and embryonic new software that Sun Microsystems keeps telling us can be "written once and run anywhere". Two days before, Sun and Netscape had announced JavaScript that - according to the press release - was: "Analogous to Visual Basic in that it can be used by people with little or no programming experience to quickly construct complex applications."

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