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Terms of the Injunction

The terms of the preliminary injunction are similar to those of the original injunction granted in November 1998, and prevent Microsoft from performing the following actions:

• distributing operating systems, browsers, or development tools that fail to pass Sun's compatibility tests
  
  
• failing to warn developers that Java programs written using Microsoft's incompatible toolkit will run only on Microsoft's Java implementations
  
  
• falsely advertising that Microsoft's incompatible Java products are compatible with the specifications for the Java technology, or are endorsed by Sun.
  
  

Microsoft said the ruling "doesn't alter the status quo" since the vendor never reverted to using its original, incompatible version of Java after the appeals court overturned Whyte's injunction last summer.

The software giant also noted that Whyte was clear that "nothing in this order requires Microsoft to recall any product" and "this order does not prevent any purchaser of Microsoft's products from continuing to use them."

No trial date for the lawsuit has been set.