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Posted by geoff on January 27, 2008, 9:37 pm
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I must admit, that is a nice little rakcet they have, turning off features
if one does not upgrade to the latest product. In the 10+ years I have used
Quicken, I've not seen this before.
If it is legal then why does MS not do the same thing? Put a message out
saying unless you upgrade to Vista, you will not be able to access the
internet, for example.
--g
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Posted by David H. Lipman on January 27, 2008, 9:42 pm
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| I must admit, that is a nice little rakcet they have, turning off features
| if one does not upgrade to the latest product. In the 10+ years I have used
| Quicken, I've not seen this before.
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| If it is legal then why does MS not do the same thing? Put a message out
| saying unless you upgrade to Vista, you will not be able to access the
| internet, for example.
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| --g
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They do.
WinNT4.0 is dead and you can't get updates.
Win95 is dead and you can't get updates.
I am not sure about Win98 and WinME.
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Dave
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Posted by Oilcan on January 27, 2008, 10:47 pm
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Oilcan
>I must admit, that is a nice little rakcet they have, turning off features
>if one does not upgrade to the latest product. In the 10+ years I have
>used Quicken, I've not seen this before.
>
> If it is legal then why does MS not do the same thing? Put a message out
> saying unless you upgrade to Vista, you will not be able to access the
> internet, for example.
>
> --g
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>
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Posted by Hank Arnold (MVP) on January 28, 2008, 4:21 am
Please log in for more thread options geoff wrote:
> I must admit, that is a nice little rakcet they have, turning off features
> if one does not upgrade to the latest product. In the 10+ years I have used
> Quicken, I've not seen this before.
>
> If it is legal then why does MS not do the same thing? Put a message out
> saying unless you upgrade to Vista, you will not be able to access the
> internet, for example.
>
> --g
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>
MS *DOES* do the same thing. They do it with Money and they do it with
their other software. There are no more updates/patches/fixes or support
for any OS earlier than Windows 2000 and only critical ons for that..
You won't be able to buy XP after June 30, 2008. SQL 2000 (and SQL 7)
are unsupported....
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Regards,
Hank Arnold
Microsoft MVP
Windows Server - Directory Services
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Posted by geoff on January 28, 2008, 7:05 am
Please log in for more thread options . . . but Quicken is not talking about 'no updates', features are being
turned off. Specifically, their notice says the following functionality
will be turned off:
- Downloading of financial data from the bank.
- Online bill pay.
- Downloading stock quotes.
- Uploading of portfolio info.
- Investment features.
. . . all of the above turned off, gone. Their reason for doing this is
they are managing their support costs by not supporting releases more than
three versions old.
If they do not want to support a version, no more updates, etc., that is one
thing but to turn off features to force users to upgrade is a different game
all together, seems to me.
If MS said unless you upgrade your OS to the next version the following will
happen:
- No internet access.
- Reading but no writing of files to HDDs.
- Monitors will only work at 640x480 resolution.
. . . there would be a major backlash.
--g
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