Mojang said late Wednesday that the legacy, PC-centric Java version of Minecraft will now require a Microsoft account, a decision Microsoft says it’s making for security reasons and to ensure future ...

This summer, Microsoft will release a beta of Minecraft: Education Edition written in C++ rather than Java, which looks like removing the performance problems associated with running the current ...

There are two major versions of "Minecraft," one of which is available only for computers, and the other of which can be played on nearly every device. "Minecraft: Java Edition" is the original ...

Occasionally, your business may need to access a website application that requires you to install an older version of the Java application. Java's developer, Oracle ...

The new quarterly release of the open source IDE brings the "Compare With | Clipboard" function as well as improvements for ...

Java is still awesome, just not so much as a browser plugin. edit: Think about C. Allowing people to run scripted C code downloaded from a web site is probably the least safe thing one could dream up.

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Next week’s Patch Tuesday updates for Windows will include a monumental security fix. An update to Internet Explorer, for installation on PCs running Windows 7 Service Pack 1 or Windows 8.x, will ...

At a time when Apple, Mozilla and other tech giants are taking steps to prevent users from browsing the Web with outdated versions of Java, Yahoo! is pushing many of its users in the other direction: ...