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Did Microsoft Buy Intuit

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by pconroy9

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Has anyone seen the email ad sent out by TechRepublic advertising Microsoft Quickbooks? I checked. It's not true. Although they made an offer a number of years back, MS did not buy Intuit.

Here's the page:

http://nl.zdnet.com/view_online_newsletter.jsp?list_id=e550

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by techexec2

No. Microsoft did not buy Intuit nor QuickBooks. That TechRepublic graphic appears to be just an error.

Microsoft's current QuickBooks competitor is called "Microsoft Office Small Business Accounting 2006":

Microsoft Office Small Business Accounting 2006
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/FX011956881033.aspx
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000A76ZR0/ref=nosim/002-2115781-2484024?n=229534

History:

Microsoft takes aim at Intuit with Magellan (Nov 2004)
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9593_22-5440970.html

Microsoft to launch QuickBooks competitor (Nov. 2004)
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20041108-4383.html

Microsoft Magellan to go head-to-head with QuickBooks
http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,2180,1714398,00.asp

by meganha

You are correct, TechRepublic did make a mistake in the graphic and changed it immediately once found.

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