Today in tech news:
Sun Microsystems demos the operating system of the future, and it’s quite predictably based in 3D.
Microsoft has finally been forced to stop distributing a bunch of its older software, including Windows 98SE, Office 2000, Windows NT 4 and SQL Server 7, owing to a settlement with Sun Microsystems. The 3-year-old lawsuit came about when MS released the aforementioned apps with a version of Java that was incompatible with Sun’s, essentially locking them out of the market that uses those applications.
