To add to the menace, the new Java programming language, developed by another Microsoft enemy, Sun Microsystems, had the potential to create applications programmes that could be pulled down from servers linked to the Internet and would run on any operating system.

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This essentially is the reasoning behind Judge Jackson's ruling: that Windows should not be the means by which Microsoft establishes a corresponding monopoly in browsers which, in turn, enables it to limit the potential competitive threat to Windows from the new Java programming language.

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One option, she says, is to give existing analytics specialists new training in big-data skills such as the programming language Python.

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The new version, HTML5, already supported by many leading browsers, will enable a whole new generation of interactive Web applications and serve as the programming language of the future Web.

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GlobalTV, a new product for international cable and satellite TV operators, allows near-instantaneous translation of English-language programming, said Larry Silverman, the company's chief executive officer, in an interview with IDG News Service Wednesday.

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