As the legal battle between Microsoft and Sun Microsystems over Java drags into a third year, Windows developers are wondering: Who needs Java anyway? When Sun sued Microsoft more than three years ago for allegedly failing to comply with Sun's Java licensing terms, Microsoft was pushing its own version of Java, called J++, based on technology licensed from Sun. In recent months, Microsoft has switched gears and is now putting all of its development effort behind a new language called C# (pronounced "C-sharp"), a Java competitor that does not rely on Sun technology.
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