Customers who have the Microsoft VM already installed on their machine will still be able to get important security updates through Windows Update. While this was a change that Microsoft did not want to make, it impacted only a small number of customers. Practically speaking, for Windows XP users who do not have the Microsoft VM and want a copy, there was a short period from July 10 until the release of Windows XP Service Pack 1 (SP1) during which Windows XP users were unable to get a virtual machine from Microsoft. Although Microsoft disputes Sun's claim, Microsoft chose to stop IOD as requested by Sun, and did so as of July 10, 2002.
In March of 2002, Sun Microsystems sued Microsoft, alleging in part that distributing the Microsoft VM in Windows XP to customers who wanted it via the Web was not authorized by Microsoft's license and therefore constituted copyright infringement.
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This install on demand ( IOD) system worked well.
For some Windows XP users, this meant that the first time that a user encountered a Java applet in Microsoft Internet Explorer, the application would automatically prompt the user to install a Java virtual machine. Later that year, with the release of Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft began to distribute the Microsoft virtual machine (Microsoft VM) for Java as a downloadable component of Windows XP from as well as through Windows Update. In early 2001, Microsoft settled its lawsuit with Sun Microsystems. Microsoft Virtual Machine Microsoft VM Availability
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