{"id":337,"date":"2012-01-17T17:10:26","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T17:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/lightroomjournal\/?p=337"},"modified":"2020-04-23T13:40:09","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T20:40:09","slug":"lightroom-4-and-windows-xp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lrj.mattalbright.com\/index.php\/2012\/01\/17\/lightroom-4-and-windows-xp\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightroom 4 and Windows XP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As many have noticed, the <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.adobe.com\/technologies\/lightroom4\/\">Lightroom 4 public beta<\/a> we released last week does not support Windows XP. \u00a0This decision did not come lightly and was based on a number of factors. \u00a0With each version of Lightroom, our goal is always to provide a consistently excellent customer experience. \u00a0Developing and testing across Operating System versions and platforms to ensure that we&#8217;re achieving this goal is a significant effort that takes time and resources. \u00a0XP is substantially different from Windows Vista and Windows 7, and requires a independent testing matrix, which increases the complexity of our development efforts. \u00a0 Every cycle we need to make difficult resource tradeoff decisions and operating system support competes heavily with new features and performance enhancements planned for each version. \u00a0The decision this cycle was to end XP support for Lightroom going forward.<\/p>\n<p>NOTE: On the Mac platform we needed to make a similar decision to end support for systems that are not 64-bit capable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many have noticed, the Lightroom 4 public beta we released last week does not support Windows XP. \u00a0This decision did not come lightly and was based on a number of factors. \u00a0With each version of Lightroom, our goal is always to provide a consistently excellent customer experience. \u00a0Developing and testing across Operating System versions &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lrj.mattalbright.com\/index.php\/2012\/01\/17\/lightroom-4-and-windows-xp\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lightroom 4 and Windows XP&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-autoimim"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lrj.mattalbright.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lrj.mattalbright.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lrj.mattalbright.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lrj.mattalbright.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lrj.mattalbright.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lrj.mattalbright.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3253,"href":"https:\/\/lrj.mattalbright.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions\/3253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lrj.mattalbright.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lrj.mattalbright.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lrj.mattalbright.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}