To check which version of Java you have on your Windows computer, you'll need to open the Command Prompt app. If you don't have the latest version of Java installed, Windows may have trouble ...

Mojang said late Wednesday that the legacy, PC-centric Java version of Minecraft will now require a Microsoft account, a decision Microsoft says it’s making for security reasons and to ensure future ...

Next week’s Patch Tuesday updates for Windows will include a monumental security fix. An update to Internet Explorer, for installation on PCs running Windows 7 Service Pack 1 or Windows 8.x, will ...

Java versioning has never made a lot of sense. The last time it did was back in the late 1990s, when the first full increment product release, Java 1.0, carried the same version number as the ...

You may be tempted to keep various versions of Java running on your systems, but doing so leaves you exposed to security threats There’s no denying the popularity ...

Bit9 released a report last week underscoring the ongoing security risk to the enterprise posed by outdated versions of Java still up and running on company machines -- versions of the platform with ...

This summer, Microsoft will release a beta of Minecraft: Education Edition written in C++ rather than Java, which looks like removing the performance problems associated with running the current ...

A report by Bit9 explains that it is not simply the ubiquity of Java that is the problem, it is the failure of companies to control their Java installations. According to the report, the average ...