Quickbooks and Acronis True Image, thumbs way down!
I can confirm the authors comments about Quickbooks and Acronis True Image software. I have used Quickbooks since 1998 and it is a pain in the neck. "Then why do you still use it you ask?" The simple answer; Intuit has a monopoly on the accounting software market the same way Microsoft has a monopoly on the desktop PC market. There are other accounting programs, but they are not support by 99% of banks and other software makers. Besides the persistent glitches and design defects with Quickbooks (that intuit promises to fix with each upgrade but never does), there is the god awful "Sunset" feature, which basically means that QB is designed to shut down the most useful features of the program after three years. So every three years, just about the time you have program running smoothly and you are familiar with it, it stops working and you are forced to upgrade, to a totally new glitch ridden program you are unfamiliar with. Since Intuit engineers QB to be non backwards compatible with earlier versions, you have to let the program automatically update your company file to work with the new version. I just had to go through this nightmare this last week. I have spent the last seven days working 16 hours a day trying to repair damage that was done to my company data file during this update process and my accounts are still thousands of dollars out of balance. I pray that one day some competition enters this market so Intuit will have a reason to produce a product that is actually worth the outrageous amount they charge for their software.
As far as Acronis True Image goes; there are much better programs that you can get for free like Easeus Todo Backup Free. I was suckerd into paying for True Image for two versions. I am a certified PC tech with fifteen years of experience building and repairing PCs and have used countless different professional level programs like Adobe Photoshop & Premier, MS Office, etc, I found this program one the most difficult programs I have ever used. But the main thing is that it seldom works the way it is supposed to. On top of that it actually broke my installation of Windows to the point that I had to reformat and re-install.
