FM8 compatibility with Windows 7

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--- On Tue, 8/3/10, Fred Ridder <docudoc at hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: Fred Ridder <docudoc at hotmail.com>
> Subject: FM8 compatibility with Windows 7
> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Date: Tuesday, August 3, 2010, 3:18 PM
> 
> Gang,
>  
> Does anyone have solid information on whether or not
> FrameMaker 8.x is compatible with Windows 7? 
> One of the engineers in a group I work with just got a
> shiny new laptop with Windows 7 (so far our corporate IT
> people are only allowing Windows 7 on brand-new machines),
> and the IT folks insisted that she has to install FrameMaker
> 9 rather than FrameMaker 8 because FM8 is not compatible. Of
> course, this now causes file compatibility issues since
> everybody else in the group still has FrameMaker 8 and can't
> get FM9 yet because the IT group's "purchase software"
> website only offers FM8. Yes, I know she can do a Save As to
> save files she works on in FM8 file format, but she tells me
> that FrameMaker requires her to change the filename when she
> does so, and that causes issues with our version control
> system. I'd love to have some solid information I can
> forward to the IT group to convince them that it really is
> OK to install FrameMaker 8 on a Windows 7 machine. (Or I'd
> like to know that it is definitively *not* OK so that I can
> work with this engineer to come up with a practical a
>  nd foolproof workaround.)
> I tried searching for compatibility information on Adobe's
> website, and the closest I could come were a couple of pages
> that told me that FM9 is "now compatible" with Windows 7.
> Useless. And I tried searching Microsoft's website, but the
> compatibility spreadsheet they provide for "IT pros" doesn't
> list *any* version of FrameMaker among the 10543 entries,
> and their Windows 7 Compatibility Center only lists
> FrameMaker 9, and only with the indication "no information
> available". Even more useless. 
> -Fred Ridder    
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