Microsoft has announced general availability (GA) of the Microsoft Build of OpenJDK, the open-source version of the Java development kit (JDK). The release follows the April preview of the Microsoft ...

Microsoft uses Java extensively inside the company across various products and services, including Azure, SQL Server, Yammer, Minecraft, and LinkedIn. It also has more than a thousand developers ...

Microsoft has underscored the importance of Java to its customer base, as well as the market writ large with a preview of its own distribution of OpenJDK. OpenJDK is an open source implementation of ...

The Microsoft Build of OpenJDK is now generally available, providing a no-cost distribution of open source Java that could vie with Oracle’s Java distributions for the hearts and minds of enterprise ...

Microsoft today announced its "Microsoft Build of OpenJDK 21," taking advantage of new features and functionality in Java 21. In its "About the Microsoft Build of OpenJDK" guidance, the company says: ...

In a move that could mean serious competition for Oracle in the Java space, Microsoft is previewing its own build of OpenJDK, a freely available, long-term support distribution of open source Java.