Month: December 2006

Ordered QuickBooks 2007 Premier Professional (Vista compatible) from Amazon and to my surprise they sent me two copies.  Looks like Intuit is still using those same white boxes they have shipped QB in the past with, but now the retail boxes are smaller and there are quantity two in each of the white boxes.  While I would have loved to keep the second copy and Amazon wouldn’t have been the wiser, I called them and got a return label just the same.  Couldn’t see ripping them off even if it was their mistake.  After all, it is Christmas and they … Continue reading Thanks Amazon for the second copy of QuickBooks 2007, but really, I can’t.

Okay, hopefully you will learn from my mistake.  Thought I would install Windows Vista Ultimate on my HP TC4400 again now that I have RTM bits.  My RC1 upgrade was less than desirable back in September but I have been hearing of great results of running the Windows Easy Transfer Wizard from and then doing a clean build of Vista so I thought why not?  Besides I am presenting on this in Vancouver at the VanSBS User Group so I figured I better get up to speed on it!  😉 Well please learn from my mistake.  I’m not going to … Continue reading When updating to Vista, here’s a time saving tip.

Taking a psuedo advertising break here.  Mike Iem, a member of our local Puget Sound Small Businss Server User Group and the liason working with SBS Partner/User Groups throughout the United States asked if I would pass this along.  Mike does some great Webcasts so should be worth your time if you are a Microsoft Partner.  Thanks Mike for the heads up! – Steve Greeting partner group leaders, I will be doing  2 Live meetings for the Office Accounting team next week (Monday morning at 8am PST and Wednesday afternoon at 3pm PST). I will be joined by Jason Harrison of Harrison Technology Consulting and Microsoft to … Continue reading Mike Iem will be doing a MS Partner Webcast next week for Microsoft Office Accounting 2007