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Good, about time. If they only get those features slated for Java 8, they'll be at the same level C# was six years ago. :-)

And only if Microsoft would improve their x-platform vm. Oh wait...

they had that, it is called silverlight. People didn't want it all that much.

Silverlight is still limited to Windows and Mac. Moonlight is from a third party and doesn't count toward Microsoft's community altruism score.

> Silverlight is still limited to Windows and Mac

And as a direct consequence of Silverlight not being all that popular, that will not change. Sadly.