Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...

You may be tempted to keep various versions of Java running on your systems, but doing so leaves you exposed to security threats There’s no denying the popularity ...

Every version of the Java platform specifies a range of supported versions. Here is the table of supported ranges at this time of writing (my version of this table differs from data in Sun’s docs ...

Occasionally, your business may need to access a website application that requires you to install an older version of the Java application. Java's developer, Oracle ...

Bit9 released a report last week underscoring the ongoing security risk to the enterprise posed by outdated versions of Java still up and running on company machines -- versions of the platform with ...

Next week’s Patch Tuesday updates for Windows will include a monumental security fix. An update to Internet Explorer, for installation on PCs running Windows 7 Service Pack 1 or Windows 8.x, will ...

A report by Bit9 explains that it is not simply the ubiquity of Java that is the problem, it is the failure of companies to control their Java installations. According to the report, the average ...

Developers will be able to test-drive the next-generation Java programming language by using the new version of Oracle’s NetBeans IDE (integrated developer environment), released Wednesday. “The main ...

To check which version of Java you have on your Windows computer, you'll need to open the Command Prompt app. If you don't have the latest version of Java installed, Windows may have trouble ...