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"We use more Java than one can imagine," Microsoft says on the Microsoft Build of OpenJDK website. The marketing hyperbole notwithstanding, Redmond has been promoting Java to its developer community vigorously for a while now, but it recently began pumping up its Java push on several fronts, including promoting new guidance for devs using the popular programming language on its Azure cloud computing platform.

The company created the Java Engineering Group within its Developer Division in 2019, acquired jClarity to optimize Java workloads on Azure, expanded its participation in the Eclipse Foundation to become a Strategic Member, and established its own port of the OpenJDK. Microsoft's latest developer team newsletter demonstrates an unambiguous Java-on-Azure focus with multiple tutorials and other guidance.