Q&A: Sun’s co-CTO Robert Brewin speaks in this interview with Paul Krill about Java, Web 2.0, potential next moves for the company, and the arrangement under which he serves as one of two CTOs for software.Platforms: Microsoft’s Windows Genuine Advantage is no stranger to controversy. In the latest, the company is under the gun because WGA misidentifies some real copies of XP as impostors, pirates. Fighting back, Microsoft defends WGA — in a blog posting, no less, stating that nearly all of the 60 million PCs that failed validation are in fact violating Microsoft’s policies in one way or another. (Thanks to InfoWorld sister publication Computerworld and Eric Lai for this story.) Notes from the field: By now you’ve all read or heard about the mysterious exploding Dell Laptops. Well, one of Robert X. Cringely’s cronies left a Dell in the cab of his pickup truck where it burst into flames. The fire reached the truck’s gas tank and you know what happened then. Alas, our saga grows worse: Dell declined to help the lad until he could retrieve the ‘service’ tag from the bottom of the notebook in its resting place beneath the rubble of a burned out truck. Dell users get burned, Apple lawsuit spurned. Software Development