Microsoft Corp. will stop distributing several older products next week as a result of a legal settlement with Sun Microsystems Inc. in a dispute over Java, Microsoft said.
Among the products that Microsoft will cut from its distribution channels on Dec. 15 are all versions of Windows 98 except Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows NT 4.0 Terminal Server Edition, all Office 2000 editions, Office XP Developer Edition and SQL Server 7, Tony Goodhew, a product manager in Microsoft's developer division, said yesterday.
"There is a list of products that we can no longer ship as of Jan. 2, 2004, because they include a version of the Microsoft virtual machine that we are no longer able to distribute as part of our settlement with Sun," Goodhew said.
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