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Microsoft Adding to Java -- And to Sun Rift nytimes.com Microsoft executives said Tuesday that they were departing further from the standard that Sun refers to as "100 percent pure Java" in an effort to give software programmers better performance and increased compatibility with Microsoft's Windows operating systems features. But Sun's version of the Java language, which is licensed by companies such as Netscape Communications, Oracle and IBM, has collided with Microsoft's "embrace and extend" philosophy of trying to influence Internet standards. Microsoft executives said press reports saying they were trying to create an entirely new language were "exaggerated," but they acknowledged that they were chafing under Sun's control of the Java standard. In January, when the company's chief operating officer, Bob Herbold, was asked what competing software firms could do when Microsoft decided to fold a product into Windows, Herbold told Bloomberg News that they had three options: fight and lose, sell to Microsoft or "not go into the business to begin with." So much for Gates' professed concern for preserving consumer choice and dynamic, competitive markets. (from salonmagazine.com "This is all about being able to manage heterogeneous computing environments," said Amy Wohl, a corporate computing consultant and president of Wohl Associates in Narberth, Pa. "How is Microsoft going to fit into that? Sometimes I think there's a basic misunderstanding at Microsoft on how large enterprises manage their computers."
