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QuickBooks Achieves Top Industry Honors from PC Magazine and Strong Retail Share
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Nov. 21, 2005 - QuickBooks®: Premier 2006 has received PC Magazine's coveted Editors' Choice award for financial software, earning a perfect five-out-of-five star rating. This is the fourth consecutive year that PC Magazine has given Intuit Inc.'s (Nasdaq: INTU) QuickBooks the highest rating possible and the Editors' Choice designation.

The Editors' Choice award honors products and services that the editors at PC Magazine, one of the industry's most influential publications, pick that stand out above similar products in their categories from the hundreds tested in the PC Magazine Labs. The full review of QuickBooks: Premier Edition 2006 can be found at http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1883804,00.asp.

QuickBooks 2006 is the result of a multi-year development effort that builds on Intuit's trademark ease of use, simplifying key business tasks, saving businesses time with new inventory management and accounting controls and delivers faster performance for mid-market businesses. PC Magazine called QuickBooks 2006 "...a must-have upgrade for current QuickBooks users and a must-consider purchase for any small business in the market for an accounting package."

QuickBooks share of retail units in the business accounting category fiscal year-to-date through October was up two points year-over-year to 85 percent according to NPD Group Monthly Retail Software Report adjusted to exclude non Accounting Software.

"We are extremely proud that such an important industry publication and more than 3 million customers have chosen QuickBooks as the best financial management solution in the market," said Brad Smith, senior vice president and general manager of QuickBooks. "We always value feedback from both industry leaders and customers in order to consistently make QuickBooks the best it can be. We believe our efforts have paid off with our most significant product release in years as the industry continues to solidify QuickBooks' leadership in the market."

About Intuit Inc.
Intuit Inc. is a leading provider of business and financial management solutions for small and mid-sized businesses, consumers and accounting professionals. Its flagship products and services, including QuickBooks®, Quicken® and TurboTax® software, simplify small business management and payroll processing, personal finance, and tax preparation and filing. ProSeries® and Lacerte® are Intuit's leading tax preparation software suites for professional accountants.

Founded in 1983, Intuit had annual revenue of more than $2 billion in its fiscal year 2005. The company has nearly 7,000 employees with major offices in 13 states across the U.S., and offices in Canada and the United Kingdom. More information can be found at www.Intuit.com.
 
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