Does Java 8 actually work on Windows XP

[Phil Race]

Very probably, since I think the Oracle JDK 32 bit binaries are still 
built on XP SP3.
But no one tests on XP any more, so I couldn't say for certain.

But I'd expect that to change to "definitely not" early in JDK 9,
since once we move to newer VS compilers they'll not be able to
create binaries that run on XP. VS2010 (which we use now) is
the last to support that.

 > BTW is Java 8 for OSX supported for OSX 10.7.5 onwards like Java 7 ?

10.8 will be the lowest officially supported.

-phil.

On 12/12/2013 7:11 AM, Paul Taylor wrote:
> Looking at the early access version of java 8 it says:
>
> *Windows*
> (WinXP not supported)*
>
> I understand why it is not supported, but is there any technical 
> reason why it will not work. Unlike Java for OSX Ive never had any 
> significant problems with Java on different Windows platforms, I need 
> to move to Java 8 for my OSX customers of my desktop application 
> because of some bugs in Java 7 for OSX, and I would prefer to use Java 
> 8 for all platforms. But Im sure I have a few Windows Xp customers 
> remaining so I don't want to break things for them as I'm not 
> currently using any Java 8 functionality.
>
> BTW is Java 8 for OSX supported for OSX 10.7.5 onwards like Java 7 ?
>
> Paul
>
>