Quicken 2008 Release 5

Posted by Han on December 15, 2007, 7:02 pm

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> wrote:

>> >Most of the new features are eye candy and/or are

>> >"improvements" on things that simply didn't need improvement.

>> That's been the case for a number of years now and the major reason

>> why many people including myself have gone to a every other or third

>> year update cycle.

> I agree entirely, and I do the same.

>> To Intuit's part, there really isn't a lot you can do for a mature

>> product like a personal finance tracker. All the groundbreaking

>> features were figured out years ago. Now they have to come up with

>> reasons to get people to upgrade every year and that's hard.

> Absolutely right.

I agree completely. I do every other year now too (but I had to test
2007 for unrelated reasons). Personally, I think that a subscription
model of $20-25/year would be fine if Ituit would really pay attention to
fixing things. IMO that should be better for their bottom line in the
long run as well (but I have been wrong before).

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Han
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Posted by Rich on December 19, 2007, 12:48 pm

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wrote:

> wrote:

> > To Intuit's part, there really isn't a lot you can do for a mature product

like

> > a personal finance tracker. All the groundbreaking features were figured out

> > years ago. Now they have to come up with reasons to get people to upgrade

every

> > year and that's hard.

> Absolutely right.

I upgraded to a Mac earlier this year, and Quicken for Mac is the most
horrific thing I've ever seen. Frankly, it doesn't even work, and is
missing features that were implemented in Quicken 6.0. Not Quicken
'06, SIX POINT OH, AKA "Quicken '96". :)

So I'm running Quicken '07 in a Windows VM, and while it works, it
would be nice to not have to fire up a VM every time I want to access
Quicken. I'm dying for the web version, of which I haven't heard
anything in months. I've beta tested past Quickens, and am bummed I
wasn't invited for the web beta test. I'm sure it's better than the
godawful Mac version, and that's all that matters.

Quicken '07 is now nagging me to upgrade to '08, and while in previous
years I was a "zero day adopter" I didn't do it this year because of
the anticipated web version. Now it sounds as if my not upgrading was
for the best, it's too bad they dropped the ball. Still, you guys
want to see some crappy money management software, the Mac native
stuff is uniformly awful. If you have very, very simple financial
needs they might work, but nothing is nearly as powerful as Quicken
(for Windows).

Posted by sharx35 on December 19, 2007, 3:15 pm

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> wrote:

>> wrote:

>> > To Intuit's part, there really isn't a lot you can do for a mature

>> > product like

>> > a personal finance tracker. All the groundbreaking features were

>> > figured out

>> > years ago. Now they have to come up with reasons to get people to

>> > upgrade every

>> > year and that's hard.

>> Absolutely right.

> I upgraded to a Mac earlier this year, and Quicken for Mac is the most

I wouldn't call going to a Mac "upgrading". You simply succumbed to the snob
appeal of paying MORE money for a snob product. Now you whine because YOU
have problems as a DIRECT result of YOUR action.

> horrific thing I've ever seen. Frankly, it doesn't even work, and is

> missing features that were implemented in Quicken 6.0. Not Quicken

> '06, SIX POINT OH, AKA "Quicken '96". :)

> So I'm running Quicken '07 in a Windows VM, and while it works, it

> would be nice to not have to fire up a VM every time I want to access

> Quicken. I'm dying for the web version, of which I haven't heard

> anything in months. I've beta tested past Quickens, and am bummed I

> wasn't invited for the web beta test. I'm sure it's better than the

> godawful Mac version, and that's all that matters.

> Quicken '07 is now nagging me to upgrade to '08, and while in previous

> years I was a "zero day adopter" I didn't do it this year because of

> the anticipated web version. Now it sounds as if my not upgrading was

> for the best, it's too bad they dropped the ball. Still, you guys

> want to see some crappy money management software, the Mac native

> stuff is uniformly awful. If you have very, very simple financial

> needs they might work, but nothing is nearly as powerful as Quicken

> (for Windows).

Posted by Rich on December 20, 2007, 9:06 am

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> I wouldn't call going to a Mac "upgrading". You simply succumbed to the snob

> appeal of paying MORE money for a snob product. Now you whine because YOU

> have problems as a DIRECT result of YOUR action.

God, I love Usenet.

Why are you so angry, Usenet poster? Go run a few miles, you'll feel
better.

Posted by bjn on December 16, 2007, 9:56 am

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>To Intuit's part, there really isn't a lot you can do for a mature product like

>a personal finance tracker. All the groundbreaking features were figured out

>years ago. Now they have to come up with reasons to get people to upgrade every

>year and that's hard.

Intuit could fix long-standing bugs and reinstate the features tha thave
been removed recently.

How about making the Mac and Windows versions compatible? Sure would be
nice to be able to move a data file between the two, having to do nothing
more than copy the file from one to the other.

I'd upgrade for that.