There might be old corporate websites that still relies on Silverlight, and as long as M$ officially provides support, they need to update... beware corporate lawyers, rarrrr!

Last year I had to open Internet Explorer for once, as I needed to view some boring corporate broadcast and only IE was capable of displaying it - technology relied on Silverlight

11 hours ago, Mathwiz said:

Edit 2: Downloaded the new Silverlight to my XP VM and installed it. Does anyone know of a good Silverlight test page?

Sure! http://bubblemark.com/silverlight2.html

6 hours ago, Mcinwwl said:

There might be old corporate websites that still relies on Silverlight, and as long as M$ officially provides support, they need to update... beware corporate lawyers, rarrrr!

Last year I had to open Internet Explorer for once, as I needed to view some boring corporate broadcast and only IE was capable of displaying it - technology relied on Silverlight

This explains why I couldn’t get it to work in Chrome 49 on XP.

I have had Silverlight installed for years but I didn’t realize that Silverlight only works in Internet Explorer!

It worked on older browser version having support for NPAPI plugins,. At work I have Windows 10 workstation, so Firefox 53+, newest chrome, or Edge are the competitors, and when I received my computer, all were too new to support Silverlight

13 hours ago, dencorso said:

Sure! http://bubblemark.com/silverlight2.html

Interesting. Runs fine in IE8, Advanced Chrome (NPAPI support restored), and NM 28, but not Seamonkey 2.49.5 or Basilisk/UXP (neither official on Win 7 nor Roytam's build on XP). On those I just get prompted to install Silverlight

Anyway, it's clearly XP-compatible.

Edited January 17, 20197 yr by Mathwiz

13 minutes ago, Mathwiz said:

Interesting. Runs fine in IE8 and NM 28, but not Basilisk/UXP (neither official on Win 7 nor Roytam's build on XP). On those I just get prompted to install Silverlight

Strange! It runs OK on Basilisk/UXP (Roytam1's on XP SP3) for me on three different installations (in different machines). Are you sure you've activated the Silverlight Plugin? Does your Basilisk/UXP installations even list the Plugin?

Yes, it's there and set to Always Activate.

Edit: Turning off e10s didn't help. It runs in Safe Mode though, so it's probably conflicting with some add-on.

Edit 2: Found it! It was Canvas Blocker.

Edited January 17, 20197 yr by Mathwiz

IMO This project is more suitable to be a wiki page, and only contains software that has stopped WinXP release, i.e. only "LAST" version, not latest.

Add some :

R,  3.4.4

ThrottleStop, 8.60

sigcheck, 2.30

FoxitReader, 9.01

FileZilla, 3.9.0.1

FileZilla_Server, 0.9.43

Wireshark, 1.12.13

adb, 1.0.32

Sandboxie, 5.22

VirtualBox, 5.2.22

gajim, 0.16.9

 

3 hours ago, luweitest said:

VirtualBox, 5.2.22

From VBox's download page:

Quote

Please also use version 5.2 if you still need support for 32-bit hosts, as this has been discontinued in 6.0. Version 5.2 will remain supported until July 2020.

So it will most likely still get updates for the next 18 months.

BTW, what's the last version of SRWare Iron that works on up-to-date XP SP3?

Well, the download page on their site offered me version 49 so most likely nothing newer will run on XP.

WinRAR 5.70 Beta-1 has been released today (confirmed working on Windows XP SP3)

Link to English version: https://www.rarlab.com/rar/wrar57b1.exe

What's new in latest version: https://www.rarlab.com/rarnew.htm

So WinRAR 5.70 Final will still be compatible with XP SP3 

1 hour ago, Bersaglio said:

WinRAR 5.70 Beta-1 has been released today (confirmed working on Windows XP SP3)

Link to English version: https://www.rarlab.com/rar/wrar57b1.exe

What's new in latest version: https://www.rarlab.com/rarnew.htm

So WinRAR 5.70 Final will still be compatible with XP SP3 

Atleast WinRAR has a place of love for xp

Im just wondering what if wine for linux was working also on windows xp

will be able to run any new app then ?

Wine is pretty much based on XP, but it has recently been updated to support some Vista and 7 functions, but it's far from being a fully functional Windows 7 alternative. Anyway, Wine doesn't run on XP, but the project is open source and led me to the integration of part of its call in various ways, like whenever I have to backport a programme. There's also project made by Samuel that it's called One Core API that integrates several Wine implementations and it's a custom kernel, but of course it's far from being perfect and although it provides some useful implementations, it's far from being a fully functional compatibility layer (and I can't even link it here).

Anyway, the point is: Wine doesn't run on XP, but even if it would, it wouldn't be like having Win 7 and complex programmes wouldn't work anyway.

Edited January 30, 20197 yr by FranceBB