Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 Will Be Ready for Windows 10, Team Advises

The Microsoft Dynamics NAV team has announced that the upcoming release of Dynamics NAV 2016 will be compatible with Windows 10. For recent releases including NAV 2013, 2013 R2, and 2015, the team has advised that Windows 10 compatibility issues will be resolved via October's cumulative updates.

While older versions of Dynamics NAV have some problems running on Windows 10 now, NAV MVP Aleksandar Totovic said he doesn't think they're major issues. In a blog post earlier this month, he wrote that most, if not all, of the problems occurred if Windows 10 wasn't installed from scratch.

"These problems are on upgraded Windows 10 from some older version," he wrote.

Although Totovic wasn't sure about the cause of all the problems experienced by early adopters, he pointed his readers to a blog post written by Francisco Bedolla, a Mexican Dynamics NAV consultant. Bedolla, who was trying to get multiple older NAV instances working, said he upgraded to Windows 10 from Windows 8.1 and called it a "#BigFAIL," that required him to migrate everything off that system to a new one. Ultimately, he installed Windows 10 from scratch. He explains what he did here.

Dynamics MVP Erik Hougaard said he tried running some older versions of Dynamics NAV on Windows and the oldest version that worked with Windows 10 was Dynamics NAV 5.0.

"This is not really a surprise, since Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8 had the same problem," he said. "But after the Windows 10 team showed that even Microsoft ...