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 Quickbooks 2008 GREAT NEW PROGRAM October 16, 2007
Shirley F. (Encino, CA USA)
11 out of 21 found this review helpful
Just got Quickbooks Pro 2008. I was using an older version, but this one is the best. It was really easy to learn and the new features are great. I can now pay my payroll taxes online with ease. I have a small managment company and this saves me time and money. Great software that I recommend to anyone, especially people like me with no accounting backround.
 Good upgrade, but don't expect much new. December 3, 2007
F. Stafford
11 out of 13 found this review helpful
Pretty much like all new versions since I started using in 2005. The look and feel are the same. The underlying features haven't changed much. Maybe a new button here or there so they can say the user interface has changed and is the most user friendly ever. The template manager has went through some changes for this version. Nothing drastic though and the layout designer is the same. If you're new to accounting I feel QuickBooks is still the best. I did a lot of testing with Microsoft Accounting Pro 2007 and beta tested 2008 before the general beta was released. If your QuickBooks version is a couple years old, then I'd recommend an upgrade just to stay somewhat current.
 DO NOT BUY THIS!!! Get Ready To Be FRUSTRATED!!! A "No-Go" on Windows Vista February 9, 2008
mira mang (CA)
11 out of 13 found this review helpful
Talk about botching a product! What gives when you can't even run a program labelled 2008 on Vista? Once I installed the program in would not even load. Then I went to forums on Intuit's site, apparently many other people are having the same problem. I tried running as admin and bunch of other stuff. Still no luck. Oh and I'm a developer not some novice so it ain't me.
I like the bogus reviews of this product obviously poached by Intuit. "Great job intuit!" YEAH RIGHT. Here's my message: YOU SUCK! $150 bucks for a program that doesn't even load, nice work.
Sorry for blatant sarcasm and negativity, but have these guys ever heard of product testing before you release?
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You have been warned.
The worst software product that I have ever used March 11, 2008
J. Rey (nj)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
I have never reviewed a piece of software before. But Quickbooks 2008 may be the most poorly tested software ever released, (including Vista). I feel compelled to warn others away from this mess.
We made the mistake of upgrading to QuickBooks 2008 last week because Intuit stopped providing online banking support for our old version. Within one day we were reinstalling and restoring from backups almost constantly.
We have finally installed what appears to a stable copy on an old XP laptop.
This product should still be considered Beta. Avoid upgrading at all costs. Actually, we will be advoiding Intuit going forward.
Avoid this procduct if at all possible May 30, 2008
P. Mills (Cloudcroft, NM USA)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
Like many people, I am stuck with Intuit's endless forced upgrade cycle. If you want to continue to use payroll, you are forced to constantly pay for upgrades that offer no useful new features. Once you have years of company data, it becomes difficult to switch to something else, so you are stuck with choosing the lesser of two evils.
In my experience, each one of their forced updates is worse than the one before with QB 2008 truly being an exceptional piece of garbage. Intuit claims it is compatible with Vista, so when it arrived I installed it on a Vista machine. It installed OK, but then it wouldn't run. A quick google of the problem indicates that tons of people have the same problem. Intuit simply says the issue is Microsoft's problem and they can't do anything about it. Great, so I bought a product that claims it is compatible with Vista, but really isn't. Or, if there is an issue, Intuit feels it is ok to simply take your money without resolving it.
At that point, I tried to be fair. Vista undoubtedly has a slew of problems and so maybe Intuit might be doing their best. So, I turned to an XP box (that is currently running QuickBooks 2005) and attempted to install my QB 2008. In this case, it wouldn't even install! Back to google, and I once again find page after page of people with the same issue. It turns out that there are some registry keys with permissions set in such a way that QB 2008 can't install. Once again, Intuit claims it is not their problem, but is instead Microsoft's problem. So, I fix the registry entries and get the product installed. The first thing you need to do at that point is to go online and update your payroll. That process failed with additional error messages. What a great product.
Of course, once you finally get their product working, you then have to sit on the phone in order to get an activation code. I think at this point Inuit has stolen so much of my time that it is now worth it to switch to Office Accounting 2008 or something like that. Intuit clearly feels that they have their customers locked in and thus can force feed their customers a garbage product and then treat us all like garbage as we try to fix the issues. Since I have found so many other people with the same issues, I strongly suggest that any prospective buyer avoid this product if at all possible.
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