Does Java 8 actually work on Windows XP

[Paul Taylor]

On 12/12/2013 16:57, Phil Race wrote:
> 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.
>
okay
> 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.
>
thats fine
> > BTW is Java 8 for OSX supported for OSX 10.7.5 onwards like Java 7 ?
>
> 10.8 will be the lowest officially supported.
Hmm, more disruption do you know if it will actually work on 10.7.5 
(which is much more recent then windows xp) though, in contrast to java 
7 which definitently will not work on 10.6

Paul