is a senior correspondent 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 ...

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.

In the October 1996 article What is Java, Really?, Rudi Cilibrasi wrote the following in his introductory overview of Java: Most people view Java as the programming language of the Web. Though Java ...