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Mr. Pitman. I do not know what the OS/2 patch "fixed" which allowed Quicken Windows to work with OS/2 did or does, but I do not believe that it was OS/2 which required "fixing!" OS/2 uses duely licensed and paid for Microsoft Windows code. Virtually all Windows applications will work under Win-OS/2. I will not begin, nor be a part of the debate as to whether they run as well or better in Win-OS/2 or Windows, but run they will. IBM found it necessary to modify code to accomodate your INTUIT's lack of proper planning and testing, this was done to enable OS/2 users to continue to use your product. Had INTUIT took the trouble to recognize the fact that there are several million people who have actually chosen to PURCHASE and use OS/2 (as opposed to being made to purchase Windows) and a rather large subset of those also choose to purchase and use your companies product, they would have tested the software properly and avoided the necessity of any patches. The fact that people are being told that QuickBooks Windows will not work work under OS/2, and that a patch was necessary to enable Quicken Windows to work under OS/2 makes me think that one of the "features" which made INTUIT so attractive to Microsoft was these built in road blocks to OS/2 and the abandonment of DOS product development. In response to another who blithly dismisses this loss as only affecting OS/2 users. When any compnay becomes so powerfull that it can dictate what will be used, what will be developed, what direction an industry will take and what "It" or "It's" leaders beleive is "best" for the consumer, then we all loose. No, Mr. Pitman, you do not sound like a "goodie-goodie", rather just soemone who is trying to put some "spin" on INTUIT's poor judgement, planning and poor beta testing. Mark Sills Mark Sills [10:24p PST Sat 05-NOV-1994]