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Posted by AlanW on December 21, 2007, 9:33 am
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Quicken is offering a $10.00 discount to upgrade to Q2008. I am
currently using Q2007. The marketing pitch states that there are new
and improved features. Any insights on the new release (pro or con)
would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Alan
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Posted by Ken Blake on December 21, 2007, 12:46 pm
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> Quicken is offering a $10.00 discount to upgrade to Q2008. I am
> currently using Q2007. The marketing pitch states that there are new
> and improved features. Any insights on the new release (pro or con)
> would be appreciated.
Two points:
1. Although I haven't yet seen Quicken 2008, my experience is that
each year the "new and improved features" are few and minor. Quicken
has been around long enough that it is no longer possible for them to
offer major improvements every year. So my personal practice is to buy
a new version only every two or three years. I'm also running 2007,
and expect to pass on 2008. But I might change my mind and get 2008 if
there are good prices for bundles of it with Turbo Tax in the next
month or so.
2. Intuit's $10 "discount" likely still leaves Intuit as among the
*most expensive* places to buy it. If you do decide to get it, you are
almost certainly better off getting it someplace like Costco, or at
one of the many web sites where it is sold more reasonably.
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Ken Blake
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Posted by Bert Hyman on December 21, 2007, 12:51 pm
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> ... So my personal practice is to buy a new version only every two
> or three years.
My plan is to wait 'til they stop allowing downloads of quotes and
transactions on my current version.
[Although the spotty performance of the downloads recently makes me
think they're rushing the date :-)]
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Bert Hyman | St. Paul, MN | bert@iphouse.com
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Posted by Steve Larson on December 21, 2007, 1:09 pm
Please log in for more thread options The only compelling new feature for me was the Paypal download. They could
have easily back-ported that to Quicken07, but clearly they only offered it
in 08 as a small carrot. I resent that approach, but that's another story.
Other minor stuff that I noticed, when I return an item for a refund, I book
it back to the expense category. Q07 showed it in cash flow as income, Q08
books it as a credit to expense, which I prefer. Otherwise, there is not
much difference. I picked up 08 to make the move to H&B from Deluxe, due to
some new business stuff at home that needed tracking. Apart from that need,
I would have stayed with 07.
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> Quicken is offering a $10.00 discount to upgrade to Q2008. I am
> currently using Q2007. The marketing pitch states that there are new
> and improved features. Any insights on the new release (pro or con)
> would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Alan
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Posted by Calab on December 21, 2007, 2:16 pm
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> The only compelling new feature for me was the Paypal download.
Does this actually work for you?
For me, it shows debits in foreign currencies as my own currency.
IOW: I buy something for $100 USD and it appears in my registry as $100 CAD.
(I'm Canadien, eh!) The QFX(?) file is missing the conversion transactions.
Funny thing is that I can download an OFX(?) file and thre conversion
transactions are there.
This is a PayPal bug and not a Quicken bug though... at least from what I
can tell.
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