Here we are, now into the 1st of the 5th month since this issue has been reported. Has anyone noticed, when you go to: https://quickbooks.intuit.com/ it shows plans for the "Online" version? If you go into the "Products and Features" menu section up top, it goes to the QB Online stuff as well. Where, oh where is the "new and improved" desktop version of QB? Ah, yes... you must scroll, scroll, and scroll...all the way to the bottom! There it is, under "Products." Then, you can click on "Quickbooks Desktop" and you'll get: https://quickbooks.intuit.com/desktop/
Now, it's $799 a year, paid annually. You can also look around the page and see how they try to coerce you three different ways to go with...wait for it... the online version, which is less than half the price annually than the desktop version. It looks like, to me, the 2023 desktop version may as well be...the final "desktop" version, since they have made it available more "discreetly" on their site!
Gone are the days when you were able to buy a license to use a software program for as long as you wanted to, without being "forced" into upgrading to the newer version if you didn't care about the features the newer version may have. Now, you must "subscribe" to the program and pay for the yearly updates, even though you don't care about the new features, and, especially, which is how most of my customers are, you hate... CHANGE!
If it ain't broke, why fix it, or, in this case, why upgrade it?
Software...as a "subscription" service...an expensive one at that!
