A US federal court has overturned a ruling which would have forced Microsoft to incorporate Sun Microsystems' Java technology into Windows.
The judgement blocked a ruling made by a lower court judge last December that ordered Microsoft to carry the rival software.
The Java technology enables programs to be run on all types of computers, whether they use Windows, Apple's operating system or any other operating system.
However, the judges did uphold the lower court ruling that Microsoft had broken a 2001 legal settlement between the two firms and had infringed on Sun's copyrights, and returned the case to the lower court for further proceedings.
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