Microsoft's Virtual Machine and Windows XP
Wednesday, August 28, 2002 by martin schmalz | Discussion: WinCustomize News
Did you recently install Windows XP on a machine?
Did you try to experience a website with Java applets?
Did you try to expect IE to download automatically the MS Virtual machine?
...Than you must have seen the message, that Microsoft did no longer support autmated download of VM (you need this to load JAVA scripts). All that because of some legal problems they couldn't solve.
I worked with the whole JAVA package of SUN and experienced nothing more than trouble.
There was allways the way of using Netscape, but i really don't like it, so I decided to search for a better solution.
The best thing i found was ddecirce.com.
On that page you can find a direct link to download Microsofts Virtual Machine.
Have Fun!
http://www.ddecirce.com/download/
Did you try to experience a website with Java applets?
Did you try to expect IE to download automatically the MS Virtual machine?
...Than you must have seen the message, that Microsoft did no longer support autmated download of VM (you need this to load JAVA scripts). All that because of some legal problems they couldn't solve.
I worked with the whole JAVA package of SUN and experienced nothing more than trouble.
There was allways the way of using Netscape, but i really don't like it, so I decided to search for a better solution.
The best thing i found was ddecirce.com.
On that page you can find a direct link to download Microsofts Virtual Machine.
Have Fun!
http://www.ddecirce.com/download/
geekboy2000
Reply #2 Wednesday, August 28, 2002 2:17 PM
Reply #2 Wednesday, August 28, 2002 2:17 PM
>Did you recently install Windows XP on a machine?
No, but I remember when I did.
>Did you try to experience a website with Java applets?
Yes.
>Did you try to expect IE to download automatically the MS Virtual machine?
No, because I had been reading for some time before installing that MS wasn't providing virtual machine as part of the install.
No, but I remember when I did.
>Did you try to experience a website with Java applets?
Yes.
>Did you try to expect IE to download automatically the MS Virtual machine?
No, because I had been reading for some time before installing that MS wasn't providing virtual machine as part of the install.
Tarkus
Reply #3 Wednesday, August 28, 2002 3:21 PM
Reply #3 Wednesday, August 28, 2002 3:21 PM
SP1 (at least the disc version) will include JVM, but that will be the last version of Windows to include it, because of legal problems with Sun.
Never4Saken
Reply #4 Thursday, August 29, 2002 1:49 PM
Reply #4 Thursday, August 29, 2002 1:49 PM
Martin, you are the MAN! Thought my wife was gonna get me if I couldn't get her back on Pogo.com to play the games! So she is no longer >
, now she is 
, now she is 
voyagerdelta
Reply #5 Thursday, August 29, 2002 3:12 PM
Reply #5 Thursday, August 29, 2002 3:12 PM
Thany you so much. I was getting really annoyed of going onto a website and finding the buttons didn't work or something. You are the man!
MurkWorks
Reply #6 Thursday, August 29, 2002 4:09 PM
Reply #6 Thursday, August 29, 2002 4:09 PM
You can download it from Microsft if you go to Windows Update Catalog (which is part of Windows Update). There you can also download any update to your hard drive to install later.
MarkSnyder61
Reply #7 Friday, August 30, 2002 10:59 AM
Reply #7 Friday, August 30, 2002 10:59 AM
I updated my WinXP Pro to these new drivers and thank goodness there's System Restore as it brought my machine to a crawl on a P4 2.2 Ghz machine. I suggest anyone updating should do a system checkpoint before proceding! 
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Reply #1 Wednesday, August 28, 2002 9:23 AM