Microsoft has revamped its financial management applications for midsized businesses with new features designed to track project costs. The Redmond, Wash., software maker said Tuesday that it has ...

The free edition, dubbed Office Accounting Express 2007, targets home-based businesses and early startups, said Microsoft, with a limited set of tools that provide basic accounts payable and accounts ...

Software giant Microsoft on Thursday said it will acquire Great Plains Software, a maker of business applications that allow organizations to manage chores such as accounting, payroll and online ...

When it comes to small business software, what’s in a name? Microsoft apparently decided there’s no sense being too literal. Today, the Redmond, Wash.-based company announced the availability of a ...

NEW YORK – Microsoft is paving the way for its September release of a new small-business accounting application by putting together a host of networking and support services targeted at accountants, ...

IRIS Software Group (IRIS), a leading global provider of accounting, HR, payroll, and education software, has launched the ...

Finance and accounting close solution provider BlackLine Inc. is expanding its collaboration with Microsoft by joining the software giant’s Business Application ISV Connect Program and creating a ...

Microsoft wants to “spur the imagination and spirit of entrepreneurism that drives small businesses,” while spurring free downloads of its Office Accounting Express 2007. The Microsoft “Ultimate ...

Microsoft is spiking its Office Accounting software family and will stop distributing the products as of Nov. 16, according to a posting on the company’s Web site. The product had outlived its ...

When it comes to accounting software for small business, you have three main contenders vying for your dollars. Intuit’s QuickBooks, the long-time dominant player, has every intention of maintaining ...

Under a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the software giant neither admitted to nor denied wrongdoing. No fine was imposed. The SEC alleged that Microsoft's accounting practices ...