Microsoft Java almost gone in Vista

If you upgrade Windows XP to Vista and have the Microsoft VM selected in
Internet Explorer 7 and the Sun JVM also installed, you arrive in Vista with
the Microsoft VM nonfunctional. If you try to enable the Sun JVM from the
Control Panel, Vista doesn't let you do so. However, after uninstalling and
reinstalling Sun Java it is set as the default in IE7. Then, one can
un-select Sun Java and the Microsoft VM works a bit. It will run some
simple applets but hangs on some simple applets such as the one at
www.segal.org/java/just_checkbox/ and on all signed applets I tested.

I haven't tried re-installing the Microsoft VM. If this works, it would be
useful to know, since we still have lots of users of our applets who are
running the Microsoft VM and it would be good to be able to test that
environment without finding an XP computer.



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