You are victim of misinformation. I know and we all do know that java is supposed to be configured to behave the aame on all OS. M$ made modifications to java in such a way that only their java behaves a particular way for windows. Example, Sun, IBM, and Blackdown distributions of java use jar as it's compression method of choice. M$ has cab and zip included into the javacode. Which isn't right considering cab is right protected for M$ only. Plus other modifications dealing with authentication. There goes your evil empire.