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Intuit Inc. (NASDAQ:INTU), Mountain View, Calif., has introduced QuickBooks(R) 6.0 and new multi-user QuickBooks Pro(R) 6.0 for Windows(R), the latest upgrades to the company's No. 1 best-selling small business accounting software. The company anticipates that the QuickBooks product line, which currently holds 80% of the accounting software market at retail, will now attract even more small businesses as new multi-user and Internet features are introduced this week.
QuickBooks 6.0 and QuickBooks Pro 6.0 are optimized for Windows '95, Windows NT and new Windows '98.
"When it was introduced in 1992, QuickBooks revolutionized the small business accounting software market because it was the first truly easy-to-use solution for small business owners," said Scott Cook, chairman and co-founder of Intuit. "Now we expect that QuickBooks Pro 6.0 will revolutionize small business accounting again by providing growing small businesses with a multi-user accounting solution that is truly easy to set up and use."
Record Level of Customer Demand
A record number of users volunteered to test new QuickBooks 6.0 prior to its release. The QuickBooks team was especially pleased that so many Peachtree customers expressed interest in trying out new multi-user QuickBooks Pro. "We were expecting to have a dozen or so Peachtree customers volunteer to test the new version of QuickBooks Pro. Instead, more than 2,300 Peachtree users voluntarily went to our web site to ask us if they could test new QuickBooks Pro," said Drew Paxton, QuickBooks group product manager at Intuit. "We were very happy to have the feedback from these customers because it helped us to make the new multi-user capabilities in QuickBooks Pro even better."
"After trying other accounting software, I realized that all of them had features that I liked, but none of them had all of the features that I needed...until I discovered QuickBooks," said small business owner Ken Mathews, who recently started using QuickBooks Pro 6.0 in his own company, Mathews Investments Inc. "QuickBooks combines the robust accounting features that all businesses need with the easy-to-use features that we all want...and ease of use becomes more important than ever when you have to...