
I’ve been a heavy Office 2004 Excel user for the past two+ years.I was severely disappointed when I installed Office 2008.Microsoft elected to omit functionality that is core to being productive in Excel – solver support, data analysis, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), and more.If you rely on Excel to do any type of business [...]

I’ve used Quicken for Windows since 1994 and have been quite pleased with it.I’ve updated every few years, and am currently using Quicken 2005 Deluxe for Windows XP on my PC.I have no major complaints about the Windows versions that I’ve used.
Last year, I bought my first Mac (the last of the G5 iMacs).I fell [...]

I used this and used VMWare Fusion 3. Both have issues. But Parallels has fewer deal breaking issues. So I chose Parallels. I use a 13″ MacBook Pro with Snow Leopard. I run Windows 7 in the VM. Here are my findings:
Parallels 5
Pros: Fast, rock solid
Cons: Windows Manager (which manages the Aero interface) keeps crashing [...]

Updated to delete mention of issues that were fixed in the R4 patch…
Intuit’s Quickbooks for Mac team has been busy fixing bugs since this product was released, already having published four bug-fixing updates.There are still some issues with the product which can be read about in the Intuit Community forum, but it is clear that [...]