Intuit Quicken 2007
financial management software
Version: R2
Perennial Turd
Feedback Type: Review
Contributed by: oscarruitt_dotmac Monday, May 14 2007 @ 03:37 AM PDT
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Over One Year
Recommend Product: NO
Quicken is one of those perennial turds of the software world. All you have to do is read a few user comments for any version here on Versiontracker. It is in the same class as such notable classics as RealPlayer. Intuit owes their existence to the Mac and has crapped all over their customers ever since moving to Windows. The software crashes but yet gets more and more new features (aka Microsoftitus). I just found out that the 2004 version was discontinued and the only notice I get is when trying to connect to my bank saying, "Quicken was not able to complete your request at this time. The next time you go online for this financial institution, Quicken will attempt to re-send your original request. If the problem continues, contact your financial institution. [OL-293]." Yea, right--it's the bank's damn problem that they discontinued supporting my version of their product. You would think that somewhere in the never-ending stream of pop-ups and dialog boxes that they could have bothered to put one or two telling me to upgrade instead of making me go through their poorly-made web site for an hour to discover that I now owe Intuit another damn $49.95 for a whole new batch of bugs.
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Perennial Turd - tonisue
I still get upgrades for Quicken 2004 but refuse them. I have deleted this from my computer. Everything was fine (years ago) when I spent hours inputting all of the data. As soon as I started downloading statements from the banks, credit cards, etc. Quicken could no longer accurately calculate balances. I can easily use a simple spread sheet for free if I want to input every action. However, now that banks and credit card online sites give the balances within 1 or 2 days of the action, I don't even need my check book register. Soon the register will be an unknown to the next generation like b&W tv for this generation. Save your money! Ditch Quicken.Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 12:05 PM PDT
Perennial Turd - tonisue
I still get upgrades for Quicken 2004 but refuse them. I have deleted this from my computer. Everything was fine (years ago) when I spent hours inputting all of the data. As soon as I started downloading statements from the banks, credit cards, etc. Quicken could no longer accurately calculate balances. I can easily use a simple spread sheet for free if I want to input every action. However, now that banks and credit card online sites give the balances within 1 or 2 days of the action, I don't even need my check book register. Soon the register will be an unknown to the next generation like b&W tv for this generation. Save your money! Ditch Quicken.Reply to This
Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 12:05 PM PDT