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| QuickBooks Pro 2008 [OLD VERSION] | ![QuickBooks Pro 2008 [OLD VERSION]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ZOugyW-OL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | From: Intuit
Category: Software
List Price: $199.95
Buy New: $155.00
You Save: $44.95 (22%)
New (20) from $155.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  131 reviews
Sales Rank: 54
Format: Cd-rom
Platform: Windows Xp
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: 1-user
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 2.2
MPN: 403697
Model: 403697
UPC: 028287016859
EAN: 0028287016859
ASIN: B000V4PLWM
Release Date: October 11, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 The worst software product that I have ever used March 11, 2008
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.
Problematic , SLOW and not very well backward compatible March 11, 2008
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
QuickBooks Pro 2008 is of course a re-hash of previous versions with some tweaks to the user interface with little improvement.
The program generates endless errors in the Windows XP event log that according to Intuit should not be there but should be in the Intuit log. Of course there is no fix for this ... , so expect your event log to fill up with QB errors quickly -- - I guess that's what "Quick" about the product.
Forget support, as always the info regarding issues is next to impossible to find in the Intuit knowledge base and real person to person support costs hard cash. The best support I found was in the users forum, but not well organized and most questions submitted were never responded to by Intuit staff. The Intuit knowledge base is more of a perpetual loop from not applicable to not applicable information. Sort of Microsoft like.
Overall , the product is quite slow on an AMD Athlon XP 64 X2 4800 system with gigs of memory. Standard QuickBooks functions are counter intuitive and require considerable digging around the nebulous interface to accomplish simple tasks.
Be careful if you want to use accountants copy for your accountant. He/she must have the "Premier" edition 2008. Additionally accountant copies from or to previous editions is only a wish. Read all of the hard to extremely hard to find info about what you can do with the product, Tax Table service and migrating data. Another burn from Intuit is that if you have corrupted data be ready to shell out $750 if you want your database back in a reasonable amount of time. If you can wait a few weeks then it will only cost you $250. Intuit has made sure you cannot repair your own data when you have corruption in the database beyond what QuickBooks can repair on your workstation with the "Rebuild" and "Verify" data functions. You can not extract the data tables and indexes to start a new
company file and rebuild your database. The QuickBooks database is highly is prone to errors - be warned.
The cost of the product is quite high considering the product has had little incremental improvement year to year.
These issues with the product are of course my fault and your fault for continuing to use a mid-90's product re-hashed with little improvement and pay good money for it. At best, QuickBooks Pro 2008 or any of the many preceding incarnations are worth perhaps 20 cents on the dollar for what we pay. We should stop using the product.
 excellent product March 10, 2008
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
already had the older version the new version had a couple new add ons itmakes life alot easier for my small business does a great job. wdm
 QuickBooks Pro 2008 (Vista compatible) March 10, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
Works quite well with MS Vista as well as all 2007 MS Office products. Only issue is when printing anything, numerous errors pop up and must be cleared before actual printing begins. Although requested help for this from QB Support, no reply or assistance was given.
What a Time Saver March 7, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
A great product. Granted I did upgrade from my 2003 version. 2008 is so much easier to use and the windows easier to work with. Inputting information is also a snap. Great Product.
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