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 - As always, Quickbooks, great product.I have been using Intuit products since Quicken first came out for my business. They are a great low end accounting product. Very user friendly and they are able to manage larger companies all the time. Support with Intuit has always been expensive and now is NOT domestic. With the purchase of the 2008 Quickbooks you get free 30 day support for your start-up. What needs to be made clear is, this means "Web Call Back Service". In other words, you go on the web, submit your question and return phone number, and they are supposed to call you back within 30 minutes. I say supposed because they took 1-1/2 hour to call me back the first time from India. This can be very maddening when you are in the middle of an install, especially in a multi-user environment like I have. All in all though, still a very good accounting product that I would recommend to anyone doing 5m or less in volume for their business. Remember to google "Quickbooks Coupons" prior to buying. I saved $350 from list price by doing that and buying here at Amazon. Rating:  - HIDDEN COSTSPrior to purchase, tried to contact the people at Intuit, to be sure I was buying what I needed. It's _hard_ to get information from them! Sometimes it looks like they don't really know their own products. As expected, purchase from Amazon went without trouble, item shipped quickly and arrived without any trouble. Initial installation went without trouble, but upon trying to setup the multiuser mode I kept receiving misterious error messages, that I couldn't resolve through printed nor online documentation. I finally found that it was Windows Vista built-in firewall, so I replaced it with ZoneAlarm and then everything worked! Be aware, this program is _VERY_ resource hungry! Had a Pentium 4 computer with only Windows XP and Office that was running very well. Upon installing Quickbooks, the machine was crawling on its knees! Had to buy a new Dual Core, 2 Gig machine just to comfortably run this software! I believe the software is too bloated and expensive for what it does, but unfortunately, this is what my accountant needed/requested, so I han no other choice but to buy it.
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