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> Apple and Microsoft will announce that they have entered into cooperative development on Java, with the intention of insuring compatibility between their respective Java virtual machines and extending them in some similar directions.

Oh, yes. Java was "the future of programming" back then.

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Given its role on Android (even if isn't the real deal), IDEs, distributed computing and IoT devices, pretty much a solid bet for many companies to this day.

Even Microsoft has turned into a good Java citizen, given the market relevance.

It wasn't a wrong assertion looking at the following decades.

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