Re: [WinMac] Virtual PC

Rick Kent(maverick[at]maverickmedia.com)
Thu, 30 Sep 1999 09:20:32 -0700

>Why do you have to use Virtual PC for Quickbooks Pro. Mac has a version
>for it. I use it and it is great. Now they aren't supposed to continue
>with upgrades, but I used 3.0 for three years ansd never had a problem.

1. Quickbooks Pro for Mac stopped at 4.0. For Windose it just went
to Quickbooks Pro 99 (Really smart numbering there Intuit!), an
upgrade from Version 6.0. Many useful features have been added,
including multiuser support, online payroll support, forms editing,
many payroll features, and more reports.

2. Intuit has stopped supporting Payroll updates for the Mac
version, even though it was a subscription service which we paid for
on an ongoing basis.. (Gee, big deal. All they would have to do is
add a few numbers to a table to keep it up to date.) Instead, they
sent out a copy of Aatrix top pay. But that means running and
integrating two different application, where we only used one before.

>Word has it that the last Mac version (4.0?) will crash if you enter
>a date after 12/31/1999. I don't have the program so I can't confirm
>from personal experience.

They have offered an update for this for free.

>Don't know about others' reasons, but I'm the treasurer of a couple of related
>non-profit organizations and I have volunteers who enters the information into
>the program on their PCs and, more importantly, our auditor uses QBPro on a
>PC. Being able to just copy over the year-end files is much easier than having
>to work from paper. Of course, if Intuit followed Microsoft's lead (now,
>there's an oxymoron!) and had true file compatibility and version status
>across platforms, this wouldn't be an issue. Oh well...

Actually, you can do a backup of the Mac file, from within
Quickbooks, and the Windose version will be able to open it. That is
what we have been doing with our accountant each year.

Rick Kent

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