To add to the menace, the new Java programminglanguage, 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.
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 programminglanguage.