Java 8 not supporting Windows XP

[Richard Bair]

I think the basic issue is that we can't officially support something that the vendor is not going to officially support either. If Microsoft moved their support deadline, we would probably look at doing the same. Oracle has support contracts with folks and there is no way that we can support something on a configuration that isn't supported by the vendor (or those contracts might require us to provide patches to the OS to make things work. That's just not going to happen).

However for XP there is the 7 back port that Danno has been maintaining, and that might work for you.

Richard

On Jul 23, 2013, at 9:58 AM, Pedro Duque Vieira <pedro.duquevieira at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
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> That will probably make me stick to Java 7 on a project I'm working on.
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> 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
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> 15% which is more that Mac and Linux together!
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> Best regards,
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> 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.
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> Richard
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> On Jul 22, 2013, at 5:41 PM, Pedro Duque Vieira <pedro.duquevieira at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> 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...
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>> Richard did you mean Java8 won't run on Windows XP, or that 3D features won't be supported in Windows XP?
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>> Thanks, best regards,
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>> Pedro Duque Vieira
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> Pedro Duque Vieira