I love you ! This was it ! Thanks so much to everyone ! <| sep |> I think their concern is that if the PC sales and usage keep plummeting in favor of mobile devices their core revenue stream Windows , Office will be under threat . That being said I agree that they ' ve hedged a bit with Office but Windows isn ' t hedged really at all . <| sep |> I expressed my opinion , I can ' t control your shame . <| sep |> I Downvoted you . Happy Thanksgiving . <| sep |> IntelliJ has a free Community Edition . It will have any and all features you need if you are doing programming for a hobby . But yes you can use any IDE , like Eclipse or Netbeans . The IDE isn ' t important . You ' ll have to look up separate instructions on how to set up each though .