is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Oracle is taking the final step to rid the web of its terrible Java browser plugin ...

Another piece of old, insecure web infrastructure is about to be killed off. Oracle says that it's discontinuing its Java browser plugin starting with the next big release of the programming language.

Oracle earlier this week released Java 7 Update 10 that adds new configuration options, which should serve to significantly beef up Web browser security. The key improvement here revolves around the ...

For a long time, I was among the voices who called for computer users to disable Java from their systems. The security risks in Java were far too great, I and others said, and outweighed any benefits ...