Windows® 7 Compatibility (Educational Edition)

Since the release of Windows 7, there have been a number of enquiries about compatibilty. Below is some infomation on this:

1. SolidWorks EDU products 2010-2011 academic year (Education Edition, Student Edition, and Student Design Kit) will officially support the Microsoft® Windows 7 operating system. This new release is planned in the spring of 2010.

2. SolidWorks EDU products 2009-2010 are officially supported on Windows XP and Vista. While the SolidWorks EDU products 2009-2010 installation is not prevented on Windows 7, the products are not officially supported. This means that they have not been fully validated by QA and therefore the full scope of potential issues is not known. There will not be any SolidWorks product updates available for any Windows 7 specific issues. For an optimal experience with the SolidWorks EDU products 2009-2010, it is recommended that a user install on Windows XP or Vista.

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