Obviously two camps here - those who play with computers, and those who ran real businesses that demanded pricey, proprietary software tied to MS OS, along with expensive annual support, often in the thousands, for glitchy upgrades that gave nothing, until we just stopped paying. When those in charge of designing for the future know so little about the real small business world, it's no wonder we are given stuff like touchy-feelie screens straight out of "Idiocracy" with no trace of irony. This, dear naive young techie hipsters, is the scam perpetrated on thousands of small businesses. And no, printing 10,000 pages of info is not a viable option we are left with trying to keep old software alive, like Lazarus, and only Virtual Machines running XP will provide a tenuous lifeline. Then, lo and behold, after closing, we still must somehow maintain these for seven years in case the IRS comes calling commonly, either a) the software company is also closed, or b) we might keep spending thousands, just for this contingency, for a business we can no longer even take deductions for.
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