Does Java 8 actually work on Windows XP

[Francis ANDRE]

Hi
Le 12/12/2013 17:57, Phil Race a écrit :
> 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.
So OpenJDK on windows should stay using VS2010 because WP is my everyday platform
>
> > 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
>>
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