My advice is do not repeat: do notpurchase the Mac version of QB unless the end user is the only person entering data into it. Even if your entire office ran on Macs, there's still no way to share a database. We found this out too late, after getting convincing ourselves to move from MYOB to QB Pro 2005 last month, largely on the sales pitch of "syncs with Windows better than ever." Our fault: we didn't read the fine print, which basically says that if you send your data file to a Window user, they can open it up, and visa versa. THAT's IT. But who, besides a one-man business, uses a business accounting program this way? It's left a bad taste in my mouth.

We are going to attempt to coerce Intuit into trading our copy of Mac QBs for a Windows version, purchase Virtual PC, and do as AlohaShirt suggests: try using QB's company's file sharing capabilities from VPC. By the way, no one at Intuit has a clue if this will work, or how to set it up.

If we get it to work, we'll report back here with all the details.