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QuickBooks Accounting 2009 for Mac
Accounting is a lot less exciting than watching paint dry, but it's a necessity for companies. Intuit's QuickBooks products for Mac don't get a lot of respect, since Intuit seems to treat Mac owners as second-class citizens. They're still working on improving their products, however, and have just announced QuickBooks Accounting 2009 for Mac. The new version of QuickBooks is a Leopard-only product, and won't be available for a few more weeks, but it appears to be a solid improvement over its predecessor -- QuickBooks 2007 for Mac. The application, which will retail for US$199.95, features a much-improved interface. Designed for small businesses, QuickBooks now has a Home Page showing how different business tasks fit together. There are Customer, Transaction, Report, and Vendor centers that organize your entries into single-page views, keeping you from having to switch between dozens of windows as in previous versions. Online banking now expands to over 3,000 institutions and the product integrates with XSilva's LightSpeed Point-of-sale software. However, there's still no multi-user version, and early reports mention that the application still doesn't have full file compatibility with the Windows version -- something that is critical when sending files to accountants for review. The Intuit website has not yet been updated with information about QuickBooks Accounting 2009 for Mac.
Update on the QuickBooks situation via Intuit
A few minutes ago, Intuit posted an update on the QuickBooks community forum about the ongoing fiasco affecting QuickBooks 2006 and 2007 users. Although the root cause of the issue has not been identified, Intuit says that they believe they have resolved the problem and the update issue should not affect users who have not opened the program since Saturday afternoon. I would still recommend launching with caution, and after using the terminal command or plist edit detailed in our earlier post.As for users who HAVE been affected by whatever this "thing" is -- here's what Intuit Community Guru Nic is saying:...For those of you who have been affected, we are testing out options for recovering the deleted files. Our recommendation for now is to shut off your machine and do not use it further. If you continue using your computer, you may over-write the area on the disk where the deleted data is stored, preventing any recovery efforts from being effective. If you have been affected and have lost files, and haven't already posted your contact information in the original discussion, please email your contact information to Quickbooks_community_team@intuit.com. We'll get your contact information to the team that is working on this, so that you can be contacted for follow-up. Intuit has also created a Knowledge Base article about this issue. We'll keep you updated as we get more information.
