Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Knute Johnson Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Java 8 and Windows XP? Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 16:02:40 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 23:02:41 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="aba33539224e5c782fe0c4053f7756fd"; logging-data="3071"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/xw5RRECR+ydps1EGBmcpO" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:wYmBuM2wosvkq9os982NRNK9EGc= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:28776 On 6/18/2014 15:31, Qu0ll wrote: > "Knute Johnson" wrote in message news:lns8cp$itl$1@dont-email.me... > >> Anybody had a problem installing Java 8 on WinXP? > > Java 8 most definitely does not support Windows XP and trying to get it > to work would be way more trouble than it's worth in my opinion. > > XP is now 13 years old. Time to move on perhaps? > > -- > And loving it, My client will have XP for the foreseeable future, unfortunately. They can still get support from MS but it is going to get more and more difficult to service them. They've been talking a major upgrade for some time but that involves a lot of new hardware and construction. The last I heard was maybe by the end of the year. I'll have lots of work if they pull the trigger but till then it's XP :-). -- Knute Johnson