"Since Intuit probably doesn't want to make any more changes to QB2006, it's my guess that this will be all they do.
Quickbooks for mac future update#
"It appears the immediate fix is to just disable automatic update for QB2006," said a user identified as "gxnprvby," but whose profile gave his real name as Rich Auricchio, a former Apple software engineer who now works as an independent Mac support consultant.
Quickbooks for mac future Patch#
One user on the QuickBooks support forums speculated that the patch meant an end to 2006's support. QuickBooks 2006 launched in August 2005, and by Intuit's stated "sunset" scheme, should be supported until the 2009 version appears, presumably near the end of this year or early next QuickBooks 2008 Pro for Mac did not release last September along with the 2008 Windows edition, and is now slated for an unveiling sometime this year, according to Intuit.
The company's standard policy is to provide updates for the newest version of QuickBooks, as well as the two versions prior, which typically gives any given edition a three-year lifespan. Intuit has not said, however, whether it intends the patch to be permanent, and if so, how users will update QuickBooks with the software's update service switched off.
"The intent of Ian 's statement was to alert users who did not yet have the new patch, to a possible re-manifestation of the prior bug in Wi-Fi hotspots due to re-direction." "The reality is: Users who apply the patch are no longer at risk anywhere," McLellan said. (A redirection error can crop up at for-fee hotspots, such as Internet cafes and airports.) Computerworld interpreted that to mean Intuit would need to craft a second patch beyond the one issued today. McLellan also clarified statements that Vacin made Monday, which seemed to indicate Intuit would need to re-patch the fix issued Thursday.Įarlier this week, Vacin announced that the December data-delete bug also strikes any Mac with a copy of QuickBooks Pro 2006 when the accounting software is launched at a public wireless hotspot and a redirection error interrupts the connection. "The patch seals the automatic updating mechanism," she said in an e-mail. Thursday, company spokeswoman Heather McLellan confirmed the patch's approach. "It will disable the upgrade mechanism completely to prevent any future episodes from occurring," he said Monday in a different support forum posting. The patch, said Vacin, will prevent a reoccurrence of the disaster because it cripples QuickBooks' upgrade tool.
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