Quickbooks 97? 98? SW? Compatible today?

[ps2cho]

I have a business client who is upgrading his windows 95 system that was built in 2007....

He has Quickbooks (SW?) 1997, 1998? I can't even tell...Pulling it off the hard drive.

If he purchases QB2011, should it be good for backwards compatibility? Anybody have any ideas?

I can't even find any info on google...he is so outdated.

 

[Jmtyra]

I also cannot find any definite information from Intuit (who makes Quickbooks) regarding backward compatibility from a version that old. Your client (or yourself) may have to contact Intuit support to obtain an answer regarding that question.

IMO, it probably will not be compatible. That's a rather large jump from 199x to 2011; it's well over 10 years, which forever in computer terms.

Sounds like the client is overdue for an upgrade.

 

[petteyg359]

Sounds like one of those silly (yet all too common) IT departments that thinks massive amounts of work and major breakages every 5-10 years with lots of vacation time in between is preferable to doing many small and not massively destructive upgrades.

 

[shadowdr]

I had Quicken on a 98se system, wouldn't even work with XP. Only backup option was to floppy, I think it did a lot of stuff in DOS.