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I use Ninite Pro. You can also use Chocolatey for the few not supported by Ninite or instead of Ninite. Chocolatey is free, but more work and you have to pay attention to when updates come out vs clicking scan for updates and update. Plus if you have spare AV laptops you can put Ninite directly on them and do a scan for updates when you do the Windows Updates on them.
This seems to have a lot more options. What I seem to be missing though is (or perhaps I just cant read) is a clear answer on whether I can push these updates remotely.
You can push them remotely with Chocolatey but if you want turnkey no check to see what is updated just update it Ninite is easier. Between the Flash, Java, Acrobat, and Chrome updates alone the time savings pays for itself.
Ninite Pro also has the one week full demo.
This.Quickbooks doesn't update that often, and can cause problems if done incorrectly, so I'd recommend just doing that one manually anyway.
This seems to have a lot more options. What I seem to be missing though is (or perhaps I just cant read) is a clear answer on whether I can push these updates remotely.
Too bad that there aren't many direct competitors to their software products anymore. (Online malarkey notwithstanding.)
The very fact that Intuits software isn't the online malarkey as you call it is your first clue that it's terrible.
There's absolutely no reason an application like QuickBooks shouldn't live in the web. It's a much more intelligent thing to do than writing a native app.
For starters, if QuickBooks were a web application, nobody would have problems updating or installing it.
Note that Intuit does own mint.com, which is a web-based competitor of Quicken and it is quite popular.
Like I said, former printer-driver programmers. The whole lot of them.
Intuit already had to buy Mint to keep it from destroying their product.
I like Mint, but clearly they've never owned a house:
http://i.imgur.com/Sh3a1yp.jpg
Its really never "unusual"