Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on December 17, 2004 05:38 AM
My church is looking for help with bookkeeping and asked me to help on the technical side. They are using Quickbooks so I began to look for ways to get Quickbooks for my systems. Last year I made the decision to not use Windows on my computers (except for my toddlers' games on a non-networked PC that runs Win98; screw "firewall" -- this thing's in solitary confinement). Could Intuit help me?
Turns out, maybe. I also have an iBook G4 and there is one version of Quickbooks (Pro) that runs on Mac OS X. Question now is, will I be able to work on the datafile between computers (we're sneaker-netting the datafile for now)? I'll find out this weekend.
The list of must-haves keeping people tied to Windows are diminishing.
So, I'm glad that there may be a way to proceed with CodeWeaver. I guess I'll buy that along with a license to Quickbooks Pro for Windows and try it out, if things don't work with the Mac OS X version (an accountant friend says there are "issues" with the Mac/PC data exchange for Quickbooks -- sad if true).
BTW, The only reason the online edition won't work on non-Windows boxes is that the online edition requires ActiveX. Well, heck. GMail has a rich user interface and uses ActiveX for Win/IE, but works great with Mozilla and Safari using plain-old JavaScript. Even if I did use Windows I ***would**not*** use InternetExposer. And, if I did use IE, you bet hyperActiveX would be shut off. At some point Intuit needs to intuit that ActiveX is unnecessary and part of a dangerous software engineering mistake.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on December 17, 2004 05:38 AMTurns out, maybe. I also have an iBook G4 and there is one version of Quickbooks (Pro) that runs on Mac OS X. Question now is, will I be able to work on the datafile between computers (we're sneaker-netting the datafile for now)? I'll find out this weekend.
The list of must-haves keeping people tied to Windows are diminishing.
So, I'm glad that there may be a way to proceed with CodeWeaver. I guess I'll buy that along with a license to Quickbooks Pro for Windows and try it out, if things don't work with the Mac OS X version (an accountant friend says there are "issues" with the Mac/PC data exchange for Quickbooks -- sad if true).
BTW, The only reason the online edition won't work on non-Windows boxes is that the online edition requires ActiveX. Well, heck. GMail has a rich user interface and uses ActiveX for Win/IE, but works great with Mozilla and Safari using plain-old JavaScript. Even if I did use Windows I ***would**not*** use InternetExposer. And, if I did use IE, you bet hyperActiveX would be shut off. At some point Intuit needs to intuit that ActiveX is unnecessary and part of a dangerous software engineering mistake.
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