No more Microsoft VM?

[agallag]

I just re-installed XP on my laptop after a meltdown, and I just noticed something strange. I went to a web page with some java on it, and got the standard Install on Demand dialog listing the Java VM. I clicked on Download, and was forwarded to a web page stating

We're sorry. Automatic installation of Microsoft Virtual Machine is no longer provided for Microsoft Windows XP.

So I then went to http://www.microsoft.com/java/download.htm and found this:

The Microsoft VM update for Windows is no longer available at this site. Please visit Windows Update (http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com) to see if a Microsoft VM update is available for your operating system.

So does that mean that microsoft is no longer providing a VM? That sucks! It was always way faster than the sun VM, and seemed more stable too. Screw compatibility, I want it back.

[ayoub_ibrahim]

try here,

http://www.softwarepatch.com/windows/javavm.html

[Agent31]

I found the same, but thanks to MSDN I obtained a copy of it... hmmm, should I really be thanking them? ah, who knows?!?

I don't doubt that this is part of MS's extraction of all things Java from the Windows OS.

[Technoid]

M$ has never ever really understood the term "Others Standards" compared to "Our standards" at the most they can understand "Others standards that we modifie into our own standard"

[Wombat]

They're also really good at "we published this standard ourselves, but we implement it differently."

[Pace]

hehe, excellent Mr McKinley

[agallag]

Finally found a definitive answer to this.

http://www.microsoft.com/java/xp.htm. It'll be included in SP1.