Well, Windows Wins

Alas but it seems that QuickBooks Pro 2008 for Windows has beaten out QuickBooks Pro 2007 for Mac. As much as I wanted to kick the new PC out of the house, QuickBooks for Windows is a far better product than QuickBooks for the Mac and costs the same amount.

I had high hopes for the Mac version. The Mac version is known to lack many features found in the PC version, such as handling payroll, credit card processing, tracking time, allowing for multiple users, creating accountant review copies, etc. I wasn't planning on using any of these features anyway. I figured that what it lacked in features would certainly be made up in a razzle-dazzle user interface. But alas I was wrong. It's not a bad interface, but it's just not that great either. And here was the clincher - I do need the ability to see and manipulate customer transaction summaries. That one function alone is much easier to do on the PC than on the Mac (if at all). So the PC stays. (And I'll have to say, it didn't shutdown unexpectedly once today).

So now if I could only understand what "debit = left column" and "credit = right column" really means...