Microsoft Corp. asked a federal appeals court on Wednesday to shelve a lower court order that would force it to start incorporating Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Java programming language in its Windows operating system.
The world's largest software company filed an emergency motion with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Richmond, Va. seeking a stay of the Java "must-carry" order until the court considers its challenge of the order.
In the motion, Microsoft's lawyers asked for an expedited hearing of the lower-court ruling, which they called "extreme and unprecedented."
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