Sun Microsystems has turned up the volume in its long-running battle with Microsoft over Java. In full-page ads in The New York Times, San Jose Mercury News and The Wall Street Journal on Thursday, ...

Java is an incredibly successful toolset - but what is it really and how did it get to be so popular? To understand what it is and how it got this way you have to start with the problem it was meant ...

Java runtime maker Azul Systems announced this week that its build of the OpenJDK, known as Zulu, is now available for both Java 6 and Java 7 running on Linux and Windows. Zulu is a compliant ...

Adobe, Microsoft and Oracle today each issued security updates to fix serious vulnerabilities in their products. Adobe released patches for AIR, Acrobat, Flash and Reader, while Microsoft pushed out ...

Oracle has dispelled rumors that the upcoming security update for Java 7 and those it will release in the future might not work on Windows XP. “We expect all versions of Java that were supported prior ...

Oracle Corp. has issued an out-of-cycle security patch to fix a vulnerability that can be exploited when installing Java on Windows. The vulnerability, which earned a CVSS Base Score score of 7.6, ...

Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Microsoft will include software for running programs based on the Java programming language in an update to its Windows operating ...

- I run a Macbook Pro (Late 2013), discrete GPU version, with MacOS Sierra (but I encountered the same issue with old OSX versions running). All software fully updated. On Bootcamp is Windows 10, ...

Mozilla has blacklisted unpatched versions of the Java plug-in from Firefox on Windows in order to protect its users from attacks that exploit known vulnerabilities in those versions. Mozilla can add ...

Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...