Java 8 not supporting Windows XP

[Pedro Duque Vieira]

Microsoft is dropping Windows XP in 2014, maybe dropping Windows XP on 2014
would be wiser.

On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 6:09 PM, Richard Bair <richard.bair at oracle.com>wrote:

> 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.
>
> 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
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