MS ends support for XP in April of 2014. JDK 8/FX 8 is released in March of 2014.
-- On Jul 23, 2013, at 10:14 AM, Pedro Duque Vieira <pedro.duquevie...@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.b...@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.duquevie...@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.b...@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.duquevie...@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 >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Pedro Duque Vieira >> >> >> > > > -- > Pedro Duque Vieira
