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I was at an Edinburgh SBS user group meeting last night with a presentation about Microsoft Office Accounting.

I have been on the beta test of Microsoft Office Accounting since the beginning and hoped it would kick the traditional accountancy software market up the bum! 

Looks like it has.

Apparently, double the expected amount of accountants have signed up since the November launch and the official consumer launch is in early March.

It really looks to be a Sage and Quickbooks killer. It is somewhat in between the two of them regards ease of use and functions but is so much more intuitive if you use Outlook 2007, BCM and MOA together.

Many thanks to Duncan from Icelantic for the excellent presentation.

He has been using MOA (with BCM and Outlook 2007) for over a year in a production environment and is having excellent feedback from clients regards MOA. Many are accountants who say they will swap from Sage.

Also Angus from Amber Computing has been installing the Express version and again getting very good responses from clients.

I use Quickbooks 2003 at the moment but will be swapping over to MOA in April for the next tax year.

All we need now are some bookkeepers to really get to learn MOA and offer accounts setup services etc and I think this will really take of in the UK.