I see many wrong here. Just to refresh the mind:
http://news.com.com/2100-1001_3-225523.html http://news.com.com/2100-1001_3-227105.html http://news.com.com/2100-1001_3-251401.html
At the core of these discussions is that Microsoft wanted to make it easier to control ActiveX components from within Java, and Sun wanted keep Java OS-neutral. When I evaluated Sun (JNI) and MS's (JDirect) proposals, I thought MS has a better one. And I think there's a cause-effect relationship between Sun's stance of keeping OS-neutral and Java losing the desktop.
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