Microsoft Virtual Machine is no longer provided for Microsoft Windows

[dtorres]

What is this all about? I just did a fresh install of Windows XP and my first site I visited using IE6 it wanted to do an Automatic install of the Java Virtural Machine. I was able to do this before on other XP machines in the past, but now I receve the following message when it connects to Microsoft's site to DL the Java Machine:


"We're sorry. Automatic installation of Microsoft Virtual Machine is no longer provided for Microsoft Windows XP."

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/getosver/default.asp

This is really interesting...is this Microsoft's way of trying to weed out Java?

Any idea's or suggestions would be helpful.

Thanks!

 

[xlhelp]

You can get it from here:

http://download.microsoft.com/download/vm/Install/3805/W9XNT4MeXP/EN-US/msjavx86.exe

Indu