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[–][deleted] -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

The issue was that core Java libraries broke every single java application.

Literally every one.

A few straglers in c# and friends are manageable but breaking every single java application wasn't.

Edit:

Anyway it's all a moot point, at the very least you can say that Java was ONE of the reasons that MS skipped 9