Microsoft launches Spanish version of Office Accounting 2008 to help Latino small businesses.

Microsoft Corp. has launched a bilingual Spanish-English version of Office Accounting Express 2008 and Office Accounting Professional 2008 in the United States, providing bilingual functionality for the growing Hispanic small-business community. Over the next 10 years, Hispanic-owned businesses will be the fastest-growing component of the business end-user market in the United States, and their rate of growth is projected to be almost three times that of overall U.S. firms.

“Small businesses recognize that managing their finances is a vital task that can be overwhelming,” said Jose Pinero, director of Diversity and Multicultural Marketing for Microsoft. “Products such as Office Accounting 2008 help small businesses by offering easy, affordable and comprehensive solutions to effectively perform everyday financial tasks in both Spanish and English.”

Products such as Office Accounting 2008 help small businesses by offering easy, affordable and comprehensive solutions to effectively perform everyday financial tasks in both Spanish and English

“We operate everything with Office Accounting Express,” said Arturo Vela, owner of Visible Salon, a company dedicated to the sales and marketing of beauty products. “We make payments to salons and invoice the distributor in New York; we control our warehouse inventory and manage our balance sheet. It’s impressive that Microsoft offers this software for no cost at all.”