Java 8 not supporting Windows XP

[Hervé Girod]

XP is not supporting multitouch, so as a user keeping XP to use JavaFX is not a good idea IMO.

Hervé

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On 23 juil. 2013, at 19:14, Pedro Duque Vieira <pedro.duquevieira at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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> Pedro Duque Vieira