 as with the desktop version. Plus, if I want to restore the online version, it might actually rewrite the file that I'm in. So if I wanna go back to a prior point, it's gonna rewrite the file. Well, what if I don't wanna actually go back to the prior point, but I wanna look at the prior point to see what's different, and then to see whether or not I want to go back to it. It's gonna be more difficult to do that if you only have one company file, whereas if you can make multiple files with the desktop, it would be like making a separate Word document or a separate Excel file, and then having a sandbox to test out with it to see what went wrong. So it's not just that I might wanna restore to that date. It might be that I wanna see what happened from that date or when something happened, from what date to the current date. When did it go wrong and troubleshoot in that way? The static backup files are better to do that with. Also, if you have an online course like we're doing here, then the static backup files possibly can be used to jump forward in our practice problem, for example, allowing you to have the exact data that we have on our side without having to work through a very long practice problem in order to get there. So from a practice standpoint, from a sandbox standpoint, and that kind of stuff, the static backup files are actually still have a lot of advantages over the online storage on the server, advantages that possibly are not simply just the losing of the data, but rather using the backup files in other ways that can be very useful. So the desktop version, as I mentioned with the backup and multiple company files, those being the major reasons, the desktop version is great to practice with. So it's great for a course like, even if they got rid of the desktop version, which again, they're gonna keep the enterprise version, you would think, so it's still good to practice with and will be in use because the enterprise version has the same layout in essence as the other desktop version, it just has more functionality in certain areas. But even if they got rid of all of it, it would still be a great tool to practice with because of the fact that you can have multiple files because of the fact that we can restore these backup files to a certain point in the practice problem. Take that online, desktop's not KOJet, just through like an a do a kick up. Hold on, I got in the street fighter. In any case, the desktop has a consistent design whereas the online version has a changing design. Either of these can be seen as a pro or a con depending on how you look at it. But from the desktop perspective, even if you go back many years into the past and look at the layout of the desktop version, it will look quite similar to the layout currently in 2024. So from a consistency standpoint, that's great because you know where things are located and that's not gonna change all that much. Whereas with the online version, it's changing all the time. Advocates of the online version would say that their ability to change it because it's a web based type software allowing them to do kind of AB type of testing helps them to optimize the layout of the online website and make changes to improve it. So again, there's pros and cons with it. In my opinion, I've used the desktop version for a long time. The layout system is well laid out in my opinion. It has the dropdowns that are similar to what you saw in Microsoft Word before they had the ribbon with the online version. The layout is fine as well, but it has changed a lot. And some of the changes you can argue as to whether they're being optimized changes or they're kind of catering to a certain audience. They've changed things like the terminology, for example, they often move buttons around and whatnot. So hopefully they get to a position where they find the ideal or optimized website. But my feeling is that they're never gonna get there because the developers always want to make changes. They get paid to make changes to the website. So I think that might be driving the fact that they're making changes basically for change's sake. So I think it's always been a good, it's always been easy to use in my opinion, but you have to basically deal with the fact that they're gonna move stuff around from time to time. They're gonna name things differently and you just go with the flow, man. Everything, the functionality will still be there, but it might be located somewhere else and they might be using some new trendy language for a time period and whatnot. And that's the way it goes. Desktop version. Enterprise may fit special needs like inventory tracking better. So with the desktop version, you have certain things that the desktop version is better at. One of them might be the inventory tracking. We'll talk about some of the specializations with the desktop version, which might be more applicable to certain types of industries as they get larger typically, right? So that's why the enterprise version of the desktop doesn't look like it's really in danger of being canceled. Whereas the non-enterprise or the standard QuickBooks for smaller companies is the one where more questions come up as to what is happening with Intuit based on kind of like their marketing strategy, which clearly seems to be guaranteeing people and steering people in that section of the market towards the online. So with the online also has its own special kind of cases which we'll look at in a second. It's really good with integrations oftentimes because it's a web-based software and with the bank feeds are things that it's quite good at. More difficult to work from different locations. So if you're getting the desktop version, it's gonna be on your computer. So it's located on your computer and therefore it's gonna be a little bit more difficult to work remotely. Whereas the online version being cloud-based is gonna be easier to log in remotely. Now again, there's pros and cons with this because if you're in a bigger company with the desktop version, you might be able to set it up so that you could still have remote access to it even though it's gonna be on a server for example or something like that or on a static computer as opposed to on Intuit's servers. Whereas the online is on the Intuit's.