A DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM :
I am facing a similar issue as the one previously posted on JDK 21 (https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8270269). The last update for this issue was on October 27, 2021, and the status is still marked as 'In Progress.' Could you please let me know if there have been any updates on this issue and what the current status is ?

EXPECTED VERSUS ACTUAL BEHAVIOR :
EXPECTED -
URL will open in system assigned browser
ACTUAL -
Exception in thread "main" java.io.IOException: Failed to open https://www.google.com. Error message: CoInitializeEx() failed.
at java.desktop/sun.awt.windows.WDesktopPeer.ShellExecute(WDesktopPeer.java:115)
at java.desktop/sun.awt.windows.WDesktopPeer.browse(WDesktopPeer.java:101)
at java.desktop/java.awt.Desktop.browse(Desktop.java:530)
....

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Desktop desktop = getDesktop();
desktop.browse(new URI("https://www.google.com"));
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