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.

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.

Nicholas Petreley compares the programming editors Jext and J to Jedit and offers a revised opinion of the best Java for Linux.

The software giant submits a new Java-like software programming language to an industry standards group, hoping to succeed where rival Sun Microsystems has failed.

The October update of Microsoft's Visual Studio Code for Java comes with updates in the code editing and debugging experience, thanks to the Java 19 preview of Virtual Threads in Project Loom.

Microsoft released its roadmap for what its planned updates for Java on Visual Studio Code and highlighted its most important improvements in 2021.

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

At Oracle Code One 2019, the Microsoft vs. IBM debate took a sharp turn in one direction. Microsoft has laid major inroads to the Java community within the past 18 months, while IBM seems to backtrack ...