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The olive branch - well, okay, twig - olive twig - that
Microsoft extended to the open source Eclipse Foundation Wednesday was the
undertaking to help make the Eclipse Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) work with
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) so it's easier for Java developers to
write programs that look and feel like native Vista apps - almost as if they
were written in C#.
There are supposed to be further conversations between Microsoft and Eclipse about further détente like maybe a C# IDE and accepting Java as a first-class citizen on Windows.
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