Aside from Java support in Azure, which prompted the company to buy Java support services company jClarity in August, Microsoft supports Java development in its open source Visual Studio Code editor.

Microsoft announces updates of its Java tooling in its Visual Studio Code extension and the Azure Toolkit for IntelliJ, showcasing a host of new features.

There are three simple ways to set JAVA_HOME in Windows. This tutorial shows you how to do it manually, from the command line and through the installer.

Microsoft Build of OpenJDK could set up the company to compete with Oracle in the Java distribution space.

Microsoft's popular open-source, cross-platform code editor, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), has received an update of its new project view, better known as the Java Projects Explorer.

As the Sun vs. Microsoft battle over Java drags on, Windows developers wonder if it's time to write off J++ and adopt Microsoft's 'Java killer,' C#.

Reversing an earlier hard-line stance, Microsoft today disclosed that an upcoming update to its Windows XP operating system will include a Java virtual machine.

Microsoft is furthering its big Java push -- marked by last year's debut of the Java Engineering Group in its Developer Division -- by porting OpenJDK for Windows 10 on Arm (AArch64)-based devices.

Microsoft announced this morning that it was acquiring jClarity, a service designed to tune the performance of Java applications. It will be doing that on Azure from now on. In addition, the ...