Free Accounting Software from Microsoft

by Noah Parsons on October 31, 2006

This is not a joke. Microsoft is actually offering it’s basic small business accounting package (Office Accounting Express) for free. Obviously, they are looking to eventually up-sell users to their more comprehensive accounting package, but this offering is a great option for small businesses that just need to graduate from keeping all their receipts in a shoebox to using basic accounting software.

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On the surface, Office Accounting Express looks like it has much more functionality than the $99 QuickBooks Simple Start. Hopefully I’ll get a chance to check it out in more detail in the coming weeks.

About Noah Parsons

Before joining Palo Alto Software, Noah Parsons was an early Internet marketing expert in the Silicon Valley. He joined Yahoo! in 1996 as one of its first 101 employees and become Producer of the Yahoo! Employment property as part of the Yahoo! Classifieds team before leaving to serve as Director of Production at Epinions.com. He is a graduate of Princeton University. Noah devotes most of his free time to his three young sons. In the winter you'll find him giving them lessons on the ski slopes, and in summer they're usually involved in a variety of outdoor pursuits. Noah is currently the COO at Palo Alto Software.