In 2001, Microsoft settled the lawsuit with Sun and discontinued its Java implementation. antitrust civil actions, as an implementation of Microsoft's 'Embrace, extend and extinguish' strategy. It was also named in the United States v. Sun Microsystems, the creator of Java, sued Microsoft in October 1997 for incompletely implementing the Java 1.1 standard. It was the fastest Windows-based implementation of a Java virtual machine for the first two years after its release. It was first made available for Internet Explorer 3 so that users could run Java applets when browsing on the World Wide Web.
The Microsoft Java Virtual Machine ( MSJVM) is a discontinued proprietary Java virtual machine from Microsoft.
