quicken 2009

Posted by R. C. White on August 29, 2008, 8:54 am

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Hi, bjn.

> In other words, what in the world have they been doing for the past year?

Cleaning up the obvious bugs that we all have been complaining about for
years?

Like maybe figuring out how to account for Certificates of Deposit?

Like maybe correcting the Corporate Acquisition wizard that still asks for
"cost", rather than Fair Market Value, of the new shares?

And several others that don't come to mind right now, but will as soon as I
start using Q2009 - or that I'll remember when I use Q2008 today?

If THAT's what they've been doing, instead of adding new bells and whistles,
then I'm ready to update to Q2009 right now! I'll be watching for reports
about THESE features from early adopters.

RC
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Microsoft Windows MVP
(Currently running Quicken 2008 Deluxe in Vista Ultimate x64 SP1)

>> I must admit this 2009 product indeed

>>looks lame.

> That's been my impression as well.

> In other words, what in the world have they been doing for the past year?

Posted by bjn on August 29, 2008, 8:41 am

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Doesn't run on Windows 2000.

On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 05:39:13 -0700 (PDT), hrmascioli@bellsouth.net wrote:

>here is a demo of 2009 features; you judge if it's worth the

>upgrade....

>watch demo flash under box.....

>http://www.amazon.com/Intuit-406502-Quicken-Premier-2009/dp/B001D1TEIE/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=software&qid=1219581469&sr=8-1

Posted by Hank Arnold (MVP) on August 30, 2008, 8:06 am

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bjn wrote:

> Doesn't run on Windows 2000.

> On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 05:39:13 -0700 (PDT), hrmascioli@bellsouth.net wrote:

>> here is a demo of 2009 features; you judge if it's worth the

>> upgrade....

>> watch demo flash under box.....

http://www.amazon.com/Intuit-406502-Quicken-Premier-2009/dp/B001D1TEIE/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=software&qid=1219581469&sr=8-1

And this is a surprise???? For crying out loud, W2K is 8 years old!!!

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Posted by Han on August 30, 2008, 8:31 am

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> bjn wrote:

>> Doesn't run on Windows 2000.

>> On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 05:39:13 -0700 (PDT), hrmascioli@bellsouth.net

>> wrote:

>>> here is a demo of 2009 features; you judge if it's worth the

>>> upgrade....

>>>

>>> watch demo flash under box.....

>>>

>>> http://www.amazon.com/Intuit-406502-Quicken-Premier-2009/dp/B001D1TEI

>>> E/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=software&qid=1219581469&sr=8-1

> And this is a surprise???? For crying out loud, W2K is 8 years old!!!

It may not be a surprise, but XP isn't that much younger, is it? ANd it
still seems to be the preferred OS among Windows. I have a Vista laptop
(Home basic, so far, as the performance index is 2.3, but I'll try to put
the better cpu in it today). Vista has NOT lived up to its billing. It
is sufficiently different from XP to cause user problems, requires too
much horsepower, and offers little benefits other than bells and
whistles, but maybe a better edition than home basic will show more
benefit. Now I have my Acer redo disks, it will just be a question of
swapping hard drives for more experiences, including ubuntu.

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Posted by Margaret on August 30, 2008, 10:15 am

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Han wrote:

>> bjn wrote:

>>> Doesn't run on Windows 2000.

>>>

>>> On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 05:39:13 -0700 (PDT), hrmascioli@bellsouth.net

>>> wrote:

>>>

>>>> here is a demo of 2009 features; you judge if it's worth the

>>>> upgrade....

>>>>

>>>> watch demo flash under box.....

>>>>

>>>> http://www.amazon.com/Intuit-406502-Quicken-Premier-2009/dp/B001D1TEI

>>>> E/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=software&qid=1219581469&sr=8-1

>> And this is a surprise???? For crying out loud, W2K is 8 years old!!!

> It may not be a surprise, but XP isn't that much younger, is it? ANd it

> still seems to be the preferred OS among Windows. I have a Vista laptop

> (Home basic, so far, as the performance index is 2.3, but I'll try to put

> the better cpu in it today). Vista has NOT lived up to its billing. It

> is sufficiently different from XP to cause user problems, requires too

> much horsepower, and offers little benefits other than bells and

> whistles, but maybe a better edition than home basic will show more

> benefit. Now I have my Acer redo disks, it will just be a question of

> swapping hard drives for more experiences, including ubuntu.

Han, I'm running XP Pro SP3 on my main desktop and Vista HP32 on my
laptop, which is running 3GB RAM and a fast dual CPU. Performance index
= 4.7. Vista is better now that SP1 is out (and I've turned off much of
the eye candy), but there are still certain hardware compatibilities
that have caused trouble for my friends (not to mention me and countless
others). One example is an HP network printer, two years old.
Unfortunately HP hasn't updated their Vista drivers for this and newer
network printers since 03/2007. I blame HP for this however....

I've finally gotten Vista to the point where it runs well, and I have
most of its idiosyncrasies worked out to where I'm fairly comfortable.
But if it's true that MS is hard at work on the next version of Windows,
supposedly a lightweight, modularized OS with more compatibility and far
less bloat, I'll be moving from Vista to that. Still, XP Pro SP3 does
all and I need and more, and if my (printer problem) friends had stayed
with XP, they'd be happily using their HP network printer instead of
going to Circuit City this weekend to pick up a wireless Lexmark with
the hope it will work with Vista.

Sigh.... But this is the stuff that kept me with plenty to do in my
working days. :-)

Regards,

Margaret