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Quicken 2005 Forced Upgrade geoff 01-27-2008
Posted by Oilcan on January 28, 2008, 11:17 am
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 Regarding Money, its all in the fine print.

"For Microsoft Money Plus, online services available for two (2) years after
activation, or Jan. 31, 2011, whichever is earlier. Online services, subject
to limited availability, include but are not limited to the abilities to (i)
download your financial institution’s statements and obtain stock quotes;
and (ii) synchronize your client-based data with MSN Money. Certain online
services and options may only be obtained separately from your financial
institution(s), with or without a fee, so please contact your financial
institution for details. Microsoft reserves the right to modify or
discontinue these online services at any time."

Please note the last statement.

Oilcan


>. . . 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
>
>


Posted by geoff on January 28, 2008, 1:48 pm
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 Too bad this section of the market does not have competition . . .

--g



Posted by XS11E on January 29, 2008, 4:09 pm
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> Too bad this section of the market does not have competition . . .

There is, sort of. If you Google around you'll find several
alternatives but none of them work very well for me.

Take a look at Moneydance:

http://moneydance.com/

and some of the others.



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Posted by Bernie on January 28, 2008, 6:06 pm
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On 1/28/2008 6:05 AM, geoff wrote:
> . . . 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
>
>
They're not turning the features off. The stuff that runs on your
machine still runs. They are turning off the remote services that run
on (or through) their machines.

Posted by geoff on January 28, 2008, 11:35 pm
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> They're not turning the features off. The stuff that runs on your machine
> still runs. They are turning off the remote services that run on (or
> through) their machines.

. . . yes but all they are doing on their end is saying, 'oh, this request
came from Q2005, sorry, no service'.

Also, when I communicate with my bank, is it my bank that Q2005 is talking
to or Intuit? When I download transactions from my stock broker's company,
is it Intuit who downloads it or is it being downloaded from the brokerage
firm?

--g



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