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Quicken 2008: Home Screen Chester 08-27-2007
Posted by John Pollard on August 27, 2007, 9:54 pm
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Andrew wrote:

> Gadzooks! You got 08 already John??

I was a beta tester. :)

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Posted by R. C. White on August 27, 2007, 10:54 pm
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Hi, John.

That ought to be very good news...for US! ;<)

Did you submit many good bugs and suggestions? Did Intuit seem to be
listening?

RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(Retired. No longer licensed to practice public accounting.)
rc@grandecom.net
Microsoft Windows MVP
(Currently running Vista Ultimate x64)

> Andrew wrote:
>
>> Gadzooks! You got 08 already John??
>
> I was a beta tester. :)
>
> --
> John Pollard


Posted by John Pollard on August 28, 2007, 9:27 am
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R. C. White wrote:
> Hi, John.
>
> That ought to be very good news...for US! ;<)
>
> Did you submit many good bugs and suggestions? Did Intuit
> seem to be
> listening?

Unfortunately, due to a snafu or two at Intuit, I did not
receive any software to test until phase 2 of testing had
already begun. That significantly shortened the time I had to
test and prevented me from taking many of the "surveys" (some of
which required that you have taken a previous survey during
phase 1 of the beta).

I did get a call from Intuit about one bug I reported and they
seemed very interested in getting the trigger mechanism correct.
But it was very near the end of beta and I didn't really expect
them to get it fixed before the final release (and they didn't).
[The same bug existed in Q2007, but the first time I ever new of
it was very recently (around the time beta for Q2008 began, a
Q2007 user discovered it.]

I had no real problems with Q2008, though as I said, I haven't
been able to test it nearly as much as I'd like.

There are several noticeable changes.

Navigation has changed quite a bit, but most everything from
Q2007 still seems to be there.

"Classes" are gone; replaced by "Tags". As far as I can tell,
Tags can do everything that classes did, plus you can have
multiple tags per transaction ... and they are no longer a part
of the category field, they have a field of their own.

And there is a new budget-like feature called "My Savings Plan".
It appears to have a bit of the "envelope" budgeting capability,
and some ability to "rollover" unused spending estimates.

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Posted by John Pollard on August 28, 2007, 10:15 am
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John Pollard wrote:

> There are several noticeable changes.
>
> Navigation has changed quite a bit, but most everything from
> Q2007 still seems to be there.
>
> "Classes" are gone; replaced by "Tags". As far as I can tell,
> Tags can do everything that classes did, plus you can have
> multiple tags per transaction ... and they are no longer a
> part
> of the category field, they have a field of their own.
>
> And there is a new budget-like feature called "My Savings
> Plan".
> It appears to have a bit of the "envelope" budgeting
> capability,
> and some ability to "rollover" unused spending estimates.

Sorry, I forgot to add two other new features; neither of which
I had any ability to test.

There is now a "529" account type.

And there is now apparently direct support for PayPal downloads.

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Posted by R. C. White on August 28, 2007, 9:36 pm
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Hi, John.

Thanks for the update. I'll probably install Q2008 soon.

Unfortunately, I had to reinstall Q2007 today. It's a very long story, but
the nearly-final chapter was that I had to do my first-ever repair install
(also known as an in-place upgrade) of Vista. That took about 5 hours.
And, afterwards, everything looked normal, but Quicken would not run until I
reinstalled it - which was painless, except for the irritation at having to
do it, especially since I'll be installing the new version in a few days.

RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(Retired. No longer licensed to practice public accounting.)
rc@grandecom.net
Microsoft Windows MVP
(Currently running Vista Ultimate x64)

> John Pollard wrote:
>
>> There are several noticeable changes.
>>
>> Navigation has changed quite a bit, but most everything from
>> Q2007 still seems to be there.
>>
>> "Classes" are gone; replaced by "Tags". As far as I can tell,
>> Tags can do everything that classes did, plus you can have
>> multiple tags per transaction ... and they are no longer a part
>> of the category field, they have a field of their own.
>>
>> And there is a new budget-like feature called "My Savings Plan".
>> It appears to have a bit of the "envelope" budgeting capability,
>> and some ability to "rollover" unused spending estimates.
>
> Sorry, I forgot to add two other new features; neither of which I had any
> ability to test.
>
> There is now a "529" account type.
>
> And there is now apparently direct support for PayPal downloads.
>
> --
> John Pollard


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