Quickbooks 2010 Release Date

So support for QB2008 is being discontinued in the next month or so.  Given that QB2008 was the current release until May 2010, supporting a product for little more than 10 months after discontinuation is disgusting.

I'm not going to bother upgrading until QB 2011 comes out - why upgrade to something already a year old if support ends within months of the new products arrival.

I recommend that eveyone downloads the latest patch ASAP just in case you need to reinstall. One of my clients needed to reinstall QB2006 for a VAT audit purposes and couldn't - the datafile he had had been upgraded by an online update patch, which was no longer available, and the version on his QB2006 CD wouldn't open his 2006 datafile.

QB 2008 doesn't migrate VAT properly - in reality he will never be able to access his data as it was on the day he left it.

Where do you get this information from  as I am on site nearly daily and have seen no mention of this .

Qb 2006 is still possible to use I have QB 2002, 2004 & 2006 all running concurrently with Qb 2008 & 2010.

You client just needs to install QB 2006 & run update or get a copy of the last patch.

I advise anyone to turn off automatic update on everything I do not allow update unless I know what & when they happen. I only allow the ones I trust. Anti Virus is one.

Graceman,

What I meant was, if someone has used QB2006 in the past, had auto-updates enabled (the default), they can no longer re-install the software since the patches downloaded by QB2006 are no longer available (at least they weren't last yr (early 2010), and without these patches you cannot open your data file.

My advice to anyone running QB2008 is to manually download the updates while they are still available and burn them to CD to be stored with your install CD's.    If you have QB2006 on a working machine, it is possible to drop into the program directory structure and find the relevant download patches and to burn those to CD too.  if you don't, and you had a system crash, you will not be able to restore your data.

Sure, you can upgrade your 2006 data into QB2008 / 2010 format - but it handles VAT so differently that you could not recreate your VAT 100 as it was when you prepared it in QB2006.

I believe that since the customer has a legal obligation to keep VAT records for 6yrs, that intuit should keep the last available patch for all its software live on its system for 6yrs. If intuit doesn't want this responsibility, then one of the tasks that the QB backup routine should be doing is to burn any patches downloaded to a location of the users choice when they do a data backup. 

This shouldn't be confused with keeping the patches up-to-date - and its not Intuit's responsibility to make QB2008 work when loaded up on windows 2017, - the customer needs to be sure they can rebuild a windows XP machine in 2017 if they need to, but if they can, Intuit should make sure that they can then load QB200x onto it and that they can access their data.

To be in black & white for me to understand,(I apologize), are you saying I need to download the 2008 patches(for my 2008 QB Pro program) & burn on CD, to use later, if  my system crashes.  Are you familiar with the  2008 Payroll program also, would you recommend to upgrade the Payroll(only 3 employees, & do payroll & tax calcs manually on PR2008)???

I don't subscribe to QB PR upgrades,support, cost isn't feasible, we run a small business, farming, crop ins.

PLus upgrade = $199(QB PR)    I always feel like QB takes the smaller vendors for a ride, if we use their services.  Any suggestions???

I disagree with "bookthat" the QB 2006 upgrade to QB 2008 or QB 2010 if done correctly does allow you to create the Vat report to match your last Vat period in QB 2006. I have done this several times.

QB 2006 past periods are not carried over into QB 2008/10 but you still have the filed data in QB 2006 plus the printed forms which is all you need.  The transactions that created the data are all in the upgraded QB 2008/10.

The limitations are normally due to the fact that the older versions allowed out of period postings and did not pick them up like QB 2008/10 now does.

I currently have QB 2002/2004/2006/2008 all functional and working on my PC you can still get activation codes for these.

The only thing I save is the download directory where the updates are stored.