
To Upgrade or Not to Upgrade? FileMaker Pro 7 and FileMaker Developer 7 are available immediately.

We’re not just going to be building databases differently, we’re going to be building fundamentally different kinds of databases.

Chopsticks are not just a different tool for picking up food: they’re designed for a different cuisine, behind which there is a different conception of what constitutes a meal. Experienced FileMaker developers learning to work in FileMaker Pro 7 may feel like Texans accustomed to attacking their food with steak knives, now forced to eat noodles with chopsticks. It’s more a matter of a new way of thinking. Now, the difference is not primarily a matter of new or changed features, although there are more of those than I can mention here. Otherwise, version 6 felt like a maintenance release, with a few new status functions, the capability to import photos directly from a digital camera, a Find and Replace command, etc.Īs a result, many people who aren’t already in the know will be surprised – no, scratch that – shocked to discover that the just-released FileMaker Pro 7 is dramatically, profoundly and comprehensively different from its predecessors. The addition of XML support in FileMaker Pro 6 was so revolutionary an enhancement that most developers still don’t know what to make of it two years later. I wouldn’t describe the last several versions of FileMaker Pro as ho-hum, but I wouldn’t exactly call them exciting. #1630: Apple Books changes in iOS 16, simplified USB branding, recovering a lost Google Workspace accountįileMaker Pro 7: Can You Say Paradigm Shift?.#1631: iOS 16.0.3 and watchOS 9.0.2, roller coasters trigger Crash Detection, Medications in iOS 16, watchOS 9 Low Power Mode.#1632: Apple Card Savings accounts, SOS in the iPhone status bar, Tab Wrangler, Focus in iOS 16.#1633: macOS 13 Ventura and other OS updates, 10th-gen iPad, M2 iPad Pro, 3rd-gen Apple TV 4K, Apple services price hikes.#1634: New Messages features, Apple Q4 2022 results, Preview drops PostScript, iOS/iPadOS 15.7.1, Dvorak on iPhone and iPad.
