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@@ -52,13 +52,9 @@ You can then either put the jars from your preferred parser into Ant's
 
 <p>
 For the current version of Ant, you will also need a JDK installed on
-your system, version 1.1 or later. Some tasks work better on post-1.1 systems;
-some tasks only work on Java 1.2 and successors.
-A future version of Ant -Ant 2.0- will require JDK 1.2 or later, though
-Ant 1.x strives to retain 1.1 compatibility.
+your system, version 1.2 or later.
 </p><p>
-<strong>Note: </strong>The Microsoft JVM/JDK is not adequate on its own, although the MS
-compiler is supported.
+<strong>Note: </strong>The Microsoft JVM/JDK is not supported.
 </p>
 <p>
 <strong>Note #2: </strong>If a JDK is not present, only the JRE runtime, then many tasks will not work.