As of December 15, most versions of Windows 98, all editions of Office 2000; Windows NT 4.0 Terminal Server Edition; and Office XP, developer edition will no longer be distributed by Micro$oft mainly because they contain the Microsoft virtual machine, which allows Windows users to run Java applications.

Microsoft settled a lawsuit filed against it by Sun in 2001 which alleged it had breached a deal by selling a version of Java that didn’t jibe with Sun’s, says a NewsFactor Network story here.

"This was a choice Microsoft made that Microsoft didn’t have to make," Giga vice president John Rymer is quoted as saying. "Every other vendor on the planet has licensed Java. Microsoft has not. They could’ve license Java. They chose not to."

Microsoft paid Sun US$20 million and agreed to stop distributing products with the Microsoft virtual machine by January 2, 2004. But this October, it decided to no longer would distribute Java virtual machines. Period. And other products containing it won’t updated so it’s no longer included in them.

As well as the items mentioned earlier, and according to the most recent list released by Microsoft, says NewsFactor, the discontinued products also will include the following:

Office XP Developer;
Visio 2000;
BackOffice Server 2000;
Office 2000 Developer;
Office 2000 Tools;
Office 2000 Multilingual;
Office 2000 Premium SR-1;
Office 2000 Service Pack 2;
Outlook 2000, Project 2000;
SQL Server 7;
SQL Server 7 Service Pack 3;
Embedded Visual Tools 3.0;
Visual Studio 6 MSDE;
IE 5.5;
MapPoint 2002;
Visual Studio 6.0 SP3 and SP5;
Windows 98;
Windows 98 Y2K;
Windows 98 Resource Kit;
Windows 98 SP1 (all Win98 except SE);
Windows NT 4.0 (Terminal Server and Option Pack); and
Visual Basic (Alpha Systems).

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