With the launch of Microsoft Vista, Quickbooks users and ProAdvisors need to be aware of a couple of incompatibilities between some versions of Quickbooks, Microsoft Vista, and Internet Explorer 7.0.
If you are going to purchase a new computer in the near future, it will likely be loaded with Microsoft Vista. For Quickbooks users, that means that you need to be running Quickbooks 2007 in
The other issue, and this one is a little more sneaky, is that if you upgrade to Internet Explorer (IE) 7.0, you must be using either a 2006 or 2007 version of Quickbooks. The reason I say sneaky, is because IE 7 will be delivered to your computer via the Windows Update function, so you or your client can get the update without taking an explicit action to get it (as opposed to purchasing a new computer or upgrading to Vista).
It is possible to roll back to IE 6 if IE 7 gets installed. I would only do this as an emergency fix. You want the extra security features of IE 7, and if you are using Quickbooks properly in your business, you are getting a great value for the cost of upgrading Quickbooks.
If you are a ProAdvisor and you want to upgrade to Vista but you still need to support clients on older versions of QuickBooks, take a look at Virtual PC. As the name sounds, Virtual PC lets you create "machines" within your machine. For example, you can create a virtual machine that runs Windows XP and QuickBooks 2005. You work on this "machine" in a window, just like another application. This allows you to run several different operating systems on one machine without having to resort to dual booting.
