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Microsoft returns to Java with Azure-focused OpenJDK release

In General
April 14, 2021


A couple of weeks ago an anonymous Twitter account told the story of an almost-forgotten Microsoft April Fool’s prank, the 1996 seeding of empty boxes of a “Microsoft Coffee” Java development tool across Seattle. Of course, at the time, the pranksters didn’t know that Microsoft was already working on its own Java implementation, Visual J++.

That was the start of the first part of Microsoft’s Java story, which ended up the subject of litigation between Microsoft and Sun Microsystems over its support for nonstandard Windows APIs, before being removed from the Visual Studio suite of tools. That might have been the end of the story, if not for Azure and Microsoft’s commitment to “go where the developers are.”

Part two of the story has been Java’s return to Microsoft’s platform, with Java tools for Visual Studio Code and support for Java on Azure. And now Microsoft is offering its own open source Java distribution, named Microsoft Build of…



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