Free Accounting Software from Microsoft?

As weird as this may seem, Micrsoft is giving away Microsoft Office Accounting Express 2007 (Windows only). Aside from being a possible replacement for the "Basic" versions of off-the-shelf accounting packages, it has a few interesting features:

• Online sales integration for sites such as eBay.
• Equifax credit service monitoring credit for your business, customers, or prospects.
• PayPal integration allows you to offer the PayPal payment option to customers.
• Microsoft Office Live integration.
• Accountant Transfer Wizard helps you share data with an accountant and synchronizes data easily after the accountant is done updating the books.
• Data import enables users to import accounting and financial data from additional programs and versions, including Microsoft Money and QuickBooks.
• Forms customization allows adding, moving, creating, renaming fields, or hiding fields.
• Customizable security roles so you can add and remove employee permissions to control access to sensitive financial information.

It does not manage inventory, though. For more features, check out this link.

Download Microsoft Office Accounting Express 2007 from this site here.