[JDEV] VB jabber client

Richard Dobson richard at dobson-i.net
Wed Aug 13 03:27:57 CDT 2003


> > You can no longer download the Microsoft JVM.... go to a fresh install
> > of XP and hit a page with a java applet... it says "click here to
> > update", and when you go to the site, it says they no longer offer it,
> > unless you get it with Visual Studio or XPSP1....  Visual Studio has
> > since stopped distributing it... and I believe XPSP's no longer have
> > it either (lucky for me I got XPSP1 when it first came out).
> >
> > Now Sun has their JVM.... but it is terribly unstable IMHO.
>
> I agree to 70%, unstable yes - the main question is: what is unstable -
> i think it's XP. on linux java runs like a dream. on 2000 all releases
> run perfect, too.

Yea I would be suspicious about it actually being XP's fault too, its not
like Microsoft havent done that kind of thing before, in the past they
altered parts of windows to make Apple's Quicktime unstable if it was
detected running on the system, and were caught out and punished (although I
dont think punished nearly enough).

Richard




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