I have used QuickBooks for many years. Each new release adds extra features, some welcome, others not. I have lived easily enough with the passive suggestions to subscribe to QB Payroll, to buy their checks, cards and other stationary, to use their marketing services, and so on. These passive ads quietly existed in the top toolbar and on the right side of the screen. Oh, those were the days!
Now, almost every move I make in the program initiates a pop up of QB's deathly slow browser with an invitation to subscribe to this or that. Okay, I can put up with one solicitation in a newly installed version, but this continues to happen each and every time. There is no option to "Don't show me this again", as Microsoft considerately permits. This is Nagware, pure and simple. Excuse me, Intuit, I paid for this program to improve my productivity, not to have my time wasted waiting for another come-on.
Speaking of productivity, my only reason for upgrading from v2008 was to be able to attach documents to different records. What a great and long overdue idea! Except that's not what it does. Instead of attaching a file or folder, or simply linking to it, QB wants us to upload these files to their servers. Just wait 'til you see how much their storage space costs. Like I mentioned earlier, I already paid for the program...
I'm searching for a way to regress my data to be read in QB 2008. If I can do that, I'll be donating my 2010 version to the local business development non-profit - with a warning about the garbage inside. I realize that this will only be a temporary solution, since Intuit is bound to stop supporting their older programs. Therefore, I'll need to find another vendor. Know any software that does what QuickBooks should?Get more detail about QuickBooks Pro 2010.
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