Microsoft ended an initiative that it appeared to torpedo from the day it hit the market by announcing that it will stop sales of Office Accounting, originally known as Small Business Accounting, on November 16. It marked yet another Microsoft failure in the low-cost financial application market and a sign that even Microsoft can't move a significant share of the market from QuickBooks. Microsoft will support the installed base for five years. Office Accounting had very little visibility in the market over the last two years.