With the demise of Adobe Flash on the way, Oracle has announced via a very short blog post that come JDK 9 later this year, the Java browser plugin will be deprecated.

Next year, the Java browser plug-in, which is frequently the target of Web-based exploits, will be retired by Oracle.

Messing around installing plug-ins or waiting for Java applets to load is never ideal when you've got friends or family to catch up with on Skype, but Microsoft is at hand to take the sting out of ...