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Is quicken 2008 worth the upgrade? Per Ting 09-13-2007
Posted by Per Ting on September 14, 2007, 9:10 am
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I upgraded from 07, and have kept upgrading annually for the last few
years. Each year I have seen some new feature that at least marginally
justifies the upgrade, but the 07 to 08 upgrade cannot be justified at all
(at least for me). I recall that in 07 the new feature worth upgrading was
attachment of check copies or receipt copies to transactions, for me that
was a nice feature. I cannot find something as useful in 08 list of
features.

As to why I do not return it, it is because then after a while I will not
be able to update stock prices through quicken 07 and I need 08 to do that.



> Per Ting wrote:
>> I have upgraded to quicken 2008 and I am absolutely disappointed. I
>> have not seen a single feature that was worth the upgrade. This was
>> the most pointless quicken upgrade in recent years. I was wondering
>> if this sentiment is shared by others?
> Your commentary might mean more if you specified the version you are
> upgrading from. If it's Q07, then that's pretty routine. It's not
> often that year to year upgrades are dramatically different. There
> certainly have been years when this is not the case, but it's the
> "norm".
>
> It's when you skip a year or more that the changes are more dramatic.
> If you follow this ng, you'd see that many of us skip every other year
> (not me, I'm an addict).
>


Posted by Guy Scharf on September 14, 2007, 10:11 am
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> As to why I do not return it, it is because then after a while I
> will not be able to update stock prices through quicken 07 and I
> need 08 to do that.

By the time you can't update stock prices through 2007, 2009 or 2010
will be out. From the viewpoint of updates and connection services,
there's no reason to update more often than every second or third year.

I have 2007 and am skipping 2008.

Guy

Posted by Hank Arnold (MVP) on September 15, 2007, 5:34 am
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Per Ting wrote:

>
> As to why I do not return it, it is because then after a while I will not
> be able to update stock prices through quicken 07 and I need 08 to do that.
>

I don't understand. Intuit only disables features like that after 3+
years..... You should be able to skip to Q09 0r Q10 with no problem....


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Regards,
Hank Arnold
Microsoft MVP
Windows Server - Directory Services

Posted by Andrew on September 14, 2007, 9:05 am
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Per Ting wrote:
> I have upgraded to quicken 2008 and I am absolutely disappointed. I
> have not seen a single feature that was worth the upgrade. This was
> the most pointless quicken upgrade in recent years. I was wondering
> if this sentiment is shared by others?

Despite others taking you to task for the post, I won't, and thank you for
posting. Why? Because maybe in the thread others might say "no" and offer
incite into why they think it WAS worth posting. I haven't purchased 2008
yet and am "desperately" looking for a reason to do so - there must be
something in the release I'd like to pick up.

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- Andrew



Posted by Thomas Darlington on September 14, 2007, 9:18 am
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I am upgrading from Quicken 2006 and also don't see the need.
I tried Quicken 2007 last year and prefered my old 2006 version.
Tried the new 2008 and it seems to have slowed down significantly.
I am just concerned since they only allow you to use a version that is a
couple of years old (and get all the online features).
Return it.

>I have upgraded to quicken 2008 and I am absolutely disappointed. I have
> not seen a single feature that was worth the upgrade. This was the most
> pointless quicken upgrade in recent years. I was wondering if this
> sentiment is shared by others?


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