Pleasant Surprise: Expect Microsoft Dynamics GP 10 to Work with Windows 7 Right Out of the Box

Microsoft Dynamics GP 10 runs extremely well with Windows 7, "great," in the words of a GP team member.

He writes on the Dynamics GP blog: "I consider myself one of the lucky ones who is already running the RTM version of Windows 7 on my primary laptop.  I had been using the Release Candidate that was available to the masses earlier this year, but as soon as the corporate IT guys made the RTM version available, I had to get it installed.  I am not alone when I say that my Win7 experience so far has been great, and it's obvious our Windows team has made some very nice improvements over Vista and XP."

Windows 7 is expected to be available beginning in October, and it will be immediately compatible with Dynamics GP 10. "That's right," says the team member. "You can run Dynamics GP 10.0 on Windows 7 the minute you are able to get your hands on it.  Our test team has already completed compatibility testing of the Win7 bits, and our support team just recently added a notice to the System Requirements page posted to PartnerSource and CustomerSource.  It isn't in big bold letters on the page, but it does indeed state the following in the Additional Information section:

"Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 will be compatibility with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 once it has RTMed."

The Dynamics GP team is using the compatibility as another argument to encourage upgrades to GP 10. "There are no plans to make versions 9.0 or before compatible with Windows 7, so if you are an existing customer eager to move ...