Comments on: QuickBooks 2007 Critical Alert

By: gabrielle

gabrielle — Mon, 24 May 2010 13:21:17 +0000

Doktor Thomas, You are certainly entitled to your option and there are those who share your dislike for Intuit and its products. It's a free country. However, you should know that the entire software industry is headed in a direction I suspect you will dislike even more! If you have resistance to paying for upgrades at least every three years (because of the add-on services), then you certainly won't like that eventually QB (and more and more mainstream programs) will be completely delivered and run through the web and paid on a monthly or annual basis. Welcome to the world of SaaS (software as a service). This "trend" is already well in progress and it's not likely to bow to those who do not wish to keep up with the technology. To each his own. I guess you could always go back to ledger paper and pencil....

By: DoktorThomas

DoktorThomas — Mon, 24 May 2010 05:30:16 +0000

Back in 2001 I coined the phrase “QuackBooks” to refer to the then pro version of this software. I detested my accountant’s insistence that I buy the software. Since then I have become extremely proficient at using it, but don’t like it anymore now than then. (Peachtree was laughable, b/t/w.)
Each time I buy a new QB version and install it, I am forced to download the MSFT messy, error ridden net framework. (Why anyone buys into that I’ll never understand.) It is more fodder to loath (not)Intuit with each new version. (2000,2002,2004,2008 and counting.)
I am particularly resistant to any software company that delivers allegedly new versions (generally they aren’t new, but are simply fixes that should of held up release in the first place) and also forces you to upgrade because they choose to not support what they sold previously.
All the older versions of QBks and Quicken still work fine on XP. (You are not using Vista or 7, are you?) While it is too late to wish for nary a copy of 2010 to be sold, I’d love to see every copy of 2011 sit on the shelf for 365+. Nothing personal, (not)Intuit just needs a little shaking from the real world.

As for the payroll and other add-ons, (not)Intuit has you trapped. While I still run all of the other versions on various XP machines, I buy one current version as infrequently as I can. Competition is heating up and (not)Intuit is not breeding any loyalty in the market place. So, stay tuned… See what’s happening to the bloating TurbidTax.

As for the notice/warning given here… too common to be news. And certainly SOP for (not)Intuit.

By: Gabrielle

Gabrielle — Fri, 21 May 2010 20:34:56 +0000

Thanks Robert! I appreciate you sharing your experience. You’ve come a long way. Keep up the good work!

By: Robert Vico

Robert Vico — Fri, 21 May 2010 19:37:08 +0000

Another lesson that I had to learn the hard way. It seems I leraned alot the hard way before meeting you. THank you for all your help with our Qucikbooks and for the easy step by step training you provided my staff. Quickbooks and I have had a love/hate relationship but now I actaully LOVE my Qucikbooks. Never thought I’d hear myself say that LOL!