[AccessD] MS Accounting discontinued

...you and me as well ...QB "PRO" is such a joke as a multi-user system I 
get steamed every time I'm compelled to save some client's ass who's 
accountant insists he use it ...it's a market just begging to be filled by 
someone ...but I tried MS Accounting and took a pass on it ...how they could 
be that wide of the mark beats the hell out of me ...take the single user 
version of QB PRO, dupe it in a clean lab, then make it work over a 
multi-user network using SQL Server Express as the be ...seems simple, eh 
...but if you actually jumped through the hoops to try and set MS Accounting 
up for a small business, its supposedly target audience, you'd have to 
wonder if the people on the Dynamics team didn't do their level best to 
sabotage MS Accounting from the start ...I can't think of any other reason 
for such a lousy product out of MS ...other than maybe they just moved the 
whole Vista team over to develop MS Accounting :(

William

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From: "John Bartow" <john at winhaven.net>
Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 11:41 AM
To: "'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'" 
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Subject: Re: [AccessD] MS Accounting discontinued

> Thanks for posting this. I'm so fed up with the latest QuickBooks Pro
> "upgrade" that I had installed Office Accounting Pro and was going to try 
> it
> out as a replacement.
>
>
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> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby
> Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 9:14 AM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: [AccessD] MS Accounting discontinued
>
> http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/archives/183698.asp
>
> That is a rather large application.  I LOVE this:
>
> After evaluating the product over the past few years Microsoft determined
> that other Microsoft
> offerings such as free templates in the Office system used with Excel and
> the Dynamics product are
> able to meet our customers' needs. The Office Small Business web site has
> links to free templates
> for small businesses, such as invoices, expenses, time sheets, budgets and
> more and Microsoft's
> Small Business Center is also a great resource for small businesses.
>
> What a JOKE.  Templates in Excel are the equivalent of an accounting
> program?  It gives me GREAT
> CONFIDENCE in Microsoft when I see a statement like that.
>
> -- 
> John W. Colby
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