In a recent interview, Microsoft executives said sales of its products using the Microsoft Java Virtual Machine (MSJVM) will be cut off next week but technical support will continue to be provided based on the company's existing policies. It will provide support on the JVM until next September.
These executives denied there is any upgrade motive and said Windows 98 Second Edition and some versions of Office 2000 will remain on the market.
When asked why the company didn't opt to just remove the JVM from the discontinued products and media, one development executive said the technical changes, repackaging and redistributing of the older products would be too time- consuming and expensive.
"The products are right at the end of their lifecycle and it would be an exceptional amount of work to fix the setup, media and do re-testing [of the software without the JVM," claimed Tony Goodhew, a product manager in Microsoft's developer division.
He also noted, however, that Microsoft will re-release select products without the JVM including Small Business Server 2000, Office XP Professional with FrontPage and Windows NT 4.0.
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