Service Pack 1 for Business Contact Manager Update and Small Business Accounting

Well it officially gets release tomorrow! But hey that doesn't stop Microsoft from releasing Service Pack 1 for Business Contact Manager Update and Small Business Accounting before it even get's officially released!

I hope that the slipstreamed CD's make it to the shelves pretty quickly because to me it's a pretty bad sign to have a service pack before the product is even released.

BTW, I'm a Quickbooks user that is currently running my books both with QB and Small Business Accounting. My take: QB sure seems to take a shorter amount of time to do things. Perhaps because the backend isn't near as beefy as SBA running on the MSDE engine. As far as user time it is a bit of a learning curve but really not much. However, the biggest problem right now is that SBA doesn't bring over the history of my company. It won't fly in small businesses that use QB right now. However, the key market to me is those that use Excel spreadsheets or something else to do their accounting. New business startups as well can take a hard look at SBA. It's integration with Office is tremendous. And for those small service shops being able to mark calendar events as billable in Outlook and then importing or linking them to SBA is a big big plus.