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Posted by Monroe on February 16, 2008, 9:49 pm
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. . . . Jesus . . . . .
By the way, your suggestion earlier in the day didn't work. Had to
create an entirely new mortgage account after the upgrade. Ditto to
some extent with editing/correcting of my paycheque. Now all is
working and life is grand.
Much too sensitive about software issues . . . . . .
On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 20:44:02 -0600, "John Pollard"
>Monroe wrote:
>> Christ, bud . . . . why the rant?
>
>Andrew doesn't need any help; but I agree with him. Asking the
>question as you have demonstrates that you have entered a
>discussion in which you have nothing to offer.
>
>> Quicken has never been a top-shelf piece of software and
>> people have
>> and continue to have problems with it.
>
>What the hell is a "top-shelf piece of software"? And how in
>the world did you become the guru who could make such decisions?
>
>> And some people get pissed at
>> that. Moreso if indeed they do follow the upgrade circuit and
>> run
>> into continual problems. It's always been a senstitive topic
>> . . . .
>> whether Intuit or MS Money. It doesn't really matter which of
>> the
>> two. And both of those companies have figured out how to make
>> this a
>> very nice cash cow.
>
>You clearly do not know what you are talking about.
>
>Quicken has an 80% share of the market ... that doesn't leave
>much for Microsoft. But MS has no excuse for not providing a
>better product ... they have more than enough resources to
>create a competetive product. The market has spoken: and the
>market proves you don't know what you're talking about.
>
>And I bet neither company is making any fortune from their
>"personal financial management" products: Intuit makes less than
>17% (and most likely, considerably less than 17%) of their
>revenue from Quicken.
>
>> Just wish they would put that degree of thought
>> into making bug free software.
>
>Just wish you had something truly informed to say on the
>subject. You clearly do not know anything about developing
>software for the personal financial market ... if you know
>anything at all about developing any product.
>
>Sittiing around in your easy chair and pretending that someone
>else can, and should, provide you exactly what you want, for
>exactly the price you want to pay, is the sign of a person who
>is unable to take responsibility for themselves. A person who
>thinks their problems are always caused by someone else ...
>despite the fact that they have no idea how to do any better
>than that "someone else".
>
>What you better do is thank your lucky stars that Intuit (and
>Microsoft) continue to provide their PFM products, because it's
>very clear that you couldn't replace them with any other
>product, and you couldn't create a product of your own.
--
Monroe
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