Does Microsoft work directly on clients commercial Java applications?
HB: Yes, we do it all the time. As a matter of fact we are, and this is surprising to a lot of people, the most used Java development tool on the market today. We ran a survey about a month or two after we came into the market and we already passed all the other competitors who were in the market before us. A big chunk of Java code that you are seeing out on the market today is Visual J++ code. One good example that I know of is Instant Sports. They make a great baseball simulation. They actually track baseball games live on the Web. Instant Sports tracks the game as it is played and you can actually see the game on your screen. You see the ball fly off to left field. You see the individuals run across the field. How they actually coordinate all that’s going on in the game, I don’t know, but it is really a spectacular application. There are a number of other baseball-related applets that StarWave has created that are also written in J++. Some of the leading ISVs use Visual J++, includi
