WampServer

Why does WAMP require the use of php while starting a PHP script. For example, this works:

<?php
echo "Test";
?>

But this does not:

<?
echo "Test";
?>

I have installed WAMP manually before (as individual components) and this worked fine. I could not find any resource on google or this site to answer this, please help.

Thanks for your time,
Oz

Short opening php tags have been depreciated, but you can still enable support for them if you go into your php.ini file and search for

short_open_tag = Off

change it to

short_open_tag = On

this will then make the <? opening tags work.