Microsoft latest version release of Windows, Windows 7, is not issue-free when it comes to compatibility with FileMaker 10 products. Upon my first glance at the FileMakers Knowledge Base’s report of known FileMaker compatibility issues with Windows, I remembered thinking the list was very small compared to the issues with Mac OS Snow Leopard. One reason is that previous versions of FileMaker have not been thoroughly tested with Windows 7. The developer’s of FileMaker says. “While these earlier versions may install and run on Windows 7, you may encounter installation and stability issues for which there is no resolution. We strongly recommend you use current FileMaker software”.

Windows 7 has been tested with FileMaker 10 products and the result may be disappointing. Another reason behind a shorter list of known issues is that FileMaker Server 10 and FileMaker Server 10 Advanced are not compatible at all with Windows 7, so there are no known issues to report for these products. FileMaker Pro 10 and FileMaker Pro 10 Advanced are the only compatible versions of FileMaker available to Windows 7 that are certified. You will be happy to find out that there are only two known issues reported with these products:

1. List control may get garbled when scrolling
2. Opened file names are not added to the Recent list

The small list of known issues with FileMaker on Windows 7, can be attributed to Windows 7 being only certified to be used with FileMaker Pro 10 and FileMaker Pro 10 Advanced. So if you plan on running Windows 7 as your operating system, make sure you are using one of these two versions of FileMaker.