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Frequently Asked Questions

I'm running Windows XP and visited a Web site with a Java applet and Internet Explorer told me I couldn't run it; what is going on?
Windows XP (the version of Windows XP which Microsoft began shipping in the Fall of 2001) shipped with the Microsoft VM (a piece of software that runs Java applets) as a Web-installable component of the product. Sun Microsystems brought a lawsuit against Microsoft in March, alleging that Microsoft's distribution of the virtual machine in Windows XP over the Web is unlicensed and constitutes copyright infringement. We believe that Sun is wrong about that, but rather than argue about it we disabled the installation of the Microsoft VM on Windows XP machines that didn't already have a Microsoft VM. As discussed in more detail below, we will now be making the Microsoft VM available by distributing it as part of the upcoming Windows XP Service Pack 1. Any customer who faced this

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