And still the fight goes on...
Microsoft tries to block out Sun

Software giant Microsoft has tried to stop a US court order forcing it to include Sun Microsystem's Java technology into Windows XP.
Sun had won an injunction in its $1bn court case against Microsoft, requiring it to include the latest version of Java into Windows XP and related systems.

In its appeal, Microsoft said that the ruling was flawed because Sun was unable to prove "immediate and irreparable harm", a standard required for preliminary injunctions.

The Java technology enables computer programmers to run their software on all types of computers, whether they use Windows, Apple's Mac OS or another operating system.

Sun said it could not wait until the court case was over, because by then Java could have been killed off.
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It just seems like a tit-for-tat battle - Microsoft does seem to be plugging it's .NET framework to death, like the article mentions, but surely it should give Java a chance. If as the article says, Java does get "killed off", it will mean a probable lack of job opportunity's for students around the world, like me, studying Java.
What are people's views on this on going battle?