A federal judge on Tuesday formally ordered Microsoft Corp. to distribute Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Java programming language in its Windows operating system.
The order by U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz in Baltimore comes nearly a month after Motz concluded that it was needed to remedy Microsoft's past antitrust violations.
It requires Microsoft to begin putting Sun's Java into Windows within 120 days. A Microsoft spokesman has said the company will file an immediate appeal with the U.S. Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia.
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