But with the new release ESRI will make big use of standard Web languages such as XML and Java to create maps far easier to use--and more fun--for clients.

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Users need only a Java-compatible web browser and a network connection.

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The Web offered a new model of content distribution, and HTML and Java were indeed major advances.

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The importance of the Web browser is that, combined with Java, a software language which can run on any platform and which was developed by another of Microsoft's rivals, Sun Microsystems, it may become a rival to the Windows operating system.

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This left users running Java on Windows, Mac and even Linux opened to being hacked by simply visiting a malicious web page.

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