Java 8 not supporting Windows XP

[Pedro Duque Vieira]

I don't think that's a good move. Not at all. I would agree more at not
supporting Windows 8 which has a small market share (although it wouldn't
still be a good move either) than not supporting Windows XP.

That will probably make me stick to Java 7 on a project I'm working on.

Just look at the market share stats:
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp and
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9238049/Windows_XP_decline_stalls_as_users_hold_onto_aged_OS_flout_2014_deadline

15% which is more that Mac and Linux together!

Best regards,


On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 1:43 AM, Richard Bair <richard.bair at oracle.com>wrote:

> Java 8 (not JavaFX 8 specifically, although we're part of Java 8 so it
> also applies to us) is not supported on XP. It may or may not work, but
> we're not testing that configuration.
>
> Richard
>
> On Jul 22, 2013, at 5:41 PM, Pedro Duque Vieira <
> pedro.duquevieira at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>
>> Java 8 doesn't support Windows XP, so in theory we can start taking
>> advantage of DirectX 10+. At this time we are limited to OpenGL ES 2 for...
>
>
> Richard did you mean Java8 won't run on Windows XP, or that 3D features
> won't be supported in Windows XP?
>
> Thanks, best regards,
>
> --
> Pedro Duque Vieira
>
>
>


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Pedro Duque Vieira