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Quicken 2008 Deluxe [OLD VERSION] Review (continued)
More User Submitted Quicken 2008 Deluxe [OLD VERSION] Reviews
Date: 2008-08-11
Crap
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Quicken came with my first Windows computer, a Packard Bell, back in 1996-ish. It also came with Microsoft Money. Both sucked then, but Money was better. I downloaded the trial version of Money and 20-minutes later uninstalled it. So I went to Wal-Mart and decided to give Quicken Deluxe a try. Long story short, it's even worse!
First of all, what modern day program doesn't allow you to order your transactions by date in descending order - so the most recent date is on top? Quicken wouldn't let me do it! And if it's possible, I couldn't figure out how and frankly all you should have to do is click twice on the date column header like any other self-respecting spreadsheet-like program. This alone is a brick wall for me.
I have a nearly new top of the line laptop. Lots of speed, lots of RAM, lots of other things I don't use at their full capacity. Quicken runs like a freakin' remote control car running out of batteries. You try and scroll quickly down through your transactions - it can't keep up. Rubbish.
When is Quicken going to realize that categories are EXTREMELY important and that the program should not make it a freakin' pain in the you know what just to change/edit/add categories. You have to go into this menu that operates just as bad as the scrolling I just whined about and make changes that should have been (1) more user friendly and (2) capable of being done solely in the register instead of what feels like a third-party category management software program band-aid.
Most importantly, the user interface, easy-of-use, and presentation of the program is no better than the ancient version of Quicken that came on my Packard Bell computer over 10-years ago. Sure it has tabs but ever since Firefox came up with tabs in its web browser, everyone has tabs. They don't help a thing in Quicken.
Don't buy this. Don't buy MS Money. Read a MS Access book, learn Access, and create your own money management tool. It'd be 100% customizable then, more user friendly, better looking, and you won't ever have to worry about exporting your data. Heck, you can even use Excel and have a better experience.
Wow, Intuit, what a waste of money you've produced! I'm sorry for being so negative, but this software is buggy, slow, ugly, and just plain no good.
Date: 2008-08-10
Upgrade from Quicken Deluxe 99 on XP
I have Windows XP. I've been running Quicken Deluxe 99 for a long time.
I starting getting more and more bugs in the program. I decided maybe it was time to upgrade to Quicken Deluxe 2008. I saw it on sale here for $[...] and jumped on it with the free shipping. WOW. I had read some negative reviews but decided I would just do everything manually and not try anything fancy like download information from a financial institution. Like before, each transaction would be entered manually and would be reconciled every month.
Conclusion: I returned the program (I hope they accept it) to Amazon. I couldn't even upgrade my Quiken 99 program accurately. I spent about half an hour with online customer service and decided that I am too old for this crap. Maybe in my 20s or 30s I would have spent the five weeks learning the program and working out the bugs. But as soon as I saw it couldn't even upgrade my financial information accurately, I knew what kind of fight I had on my hands. This would be a marathon. Wisely, I gave up right way (well, after a half hour). I returned the program to amazon and saw the price went up in the last few days. It was now over $[...]. Maybe the $[...] program doesn't have the same bugs.
Finale: I simple reinstalled Quicken Deluxe 99 on Windows XP (actually, it is only supposed to be used with Windows 98) and all my bugs went away in my old version. So far, even on XP, I'm having almost no problems at all compared to that abortion they call Quicken Deluxe 2008. I would rather keep my financial information in a spreadsheet.
Date: 2008-08-03
Quicken converting from Money
I had Money on my old machine but needed a different software as Money isn't compatible with Vista. The information re. Quicken said it could convert from Money - in the event I found it couldn't - but not before I'd bought it, taken it from the packaging and installed the software, so it was useless but unreturnable.
Warning - check that the software will do whatever you need it to do before opening the packaging.
Date: 2008-07-30
Solid product for my uses
I've used Quicken since 1993. I just upgraded from Quicken 2003 for Mac to Quicken 2008 Deluxe for Windows XP Home Edition, and have had absolutely none of the operational problems mentioned in other reviews. I had no problem saving my Mac 2003 data to a single "QIF" file and importing this file into Windows Quicken 2008 Deluxe. All data, including multiple accounts, etc., came in with no errors or other issues. (Note, however, that I only use Quicken for tracking basic checking and savings accounts, and do not use its connectivity options to connect to investment accounts, etc.) For my uses, Quicken Deluxe has worked flawlessly. I like the user interface, which is certainly superior to the 2003 Mac version, and I've made extensive use of the report capabilities, which are more than adequate for my purposes. On the negative side: (1) Like everybody else, I object to Quicken's frequent upgrades that add no useful functionality for 99.9% of users; (2) My few experiences with their customer support over the past 15 years have been both futile and extremely annoying. Fortunately, my questions were minor ones that I figured out on my own in the end, and the product itself has worked very well for my purposes so I've had no show-stoppers.
Date: 2008-07-09
Horrible software sold by a truly evil company.
For heaven's sake find some other software for your accounting. We've been struggling with Quicken for months, both at home and at my business.
This company spends most of its effort on reducing the choices consumers have so it has to spend little or no time on producing software that works.
Banks are forced to pay fees to use the ever-changing file formats, which means that both banks I use now no long support any sort of file exchange, so we have to enter transactions manually. I can see almost any point on the Earth for free in a few seconds using Google Earth, but thanks to Quicken 2008, I can't download a few simple numbers from my bank.
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