Microsoft has provided a new middleware control in XP SP1 and 2000 SP3 which lets PC makers or consumers hide--but not remove--access to five Microsoft middleware programs: Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player, Windows Messenger, Outlook Express and Microsoft's version of the Java Virtual machine. The new control also lets PC makers and consumers set the defaults for middleware
programs, whether they are from Microsoft or from third parties.
We should make Sun's Java an option in this new middleware control.
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