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Originally Posted by Shaun @ Tru6 View Post
Just bought a new version of Parallels, wanted me to do $80/year with updates or $100 one-time payment, no updates. Since I only need it to run Win7 and QuickBooks, the latter was the easy choice.

What can be done about this subscription paradigm? Seems like software companies have us by the balls.
If you need to run Win7 + Quickbooks use VirtualBox instead of Parallels. Same result (VM with Win7) but Vbox is both Free and free.
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