Excellent Product And Great Assistance - Real Estate Business Software Review
The ability to import historical data is important to track things like "year to date" performance, and Quickens inability to consistently do so removes a huge portion of its usefulness. Yes, it does some investments accurately, but its performance is spotty and inconsistent, rendering the "big picture" useless. In Windows 7, IE 8 will prompt you for changes to in-private filtering as well as firewall exceptions. In 1 situation, I used IE 8 for a manual download, it prompted a change in my "advanced firewall settings" under Windows 7, and voila! Good going Intuit! I can't wait for the next update in 3 more years to see which useful features get worse or disappear altogether. As much as it pains me, I am now looking for new financial software after almost 10 years with Quicken. This company somehow manages to make money in spite of itself, mostly due to idiots like me who feel held captive and keep buying their software.
I'm fairly certain that if I could talk to someone at Intuit support, I would equate it to bashing my head into my bedroom drywall for 90 minutes, so no big loss there. A few tips I can offer for trouble shooting "one step update" or manually downloading transactions from your financial institution, for the new initiates out there. The quicken site is a bit misleading in their "new features" list since many of the items they mention were already in the 2010 version. As with past Quicken upgrades, they largely give you MORE of an existing feature, and not much in the way of new features. I am not happy with this version. I sent an email and the response I got from them was incorrect.
Anyway, I love the product. I would recommend it to my friends and family. If I get downloads to be successful for a whole WEEK, I'd be amazed.
I hold off on upgrades at least 2 to 3 years because the changes either are not significant enough or little improvement in its usability. Quicken Home & Business is fantastic! Other than that I was disappointed to hear that there would be no more new versions. Quicken is obviously a second choice for me having used it over 10 years ago and never looking back once I got Money.
Most recently I upgraded to Quicken 2011 Home and Business from Quicken Home and Business 2008. I then upgraded to Windows 7 and had to reinstall the product. I do wish Intuit would shift some of the resources they spend on marketing all sorts of other things I don't want toward modernizing the user interface a bit. In spite of their marketing hype, there is really very little new functionality in each annual edition.
I have no doubt that there is an overarching logic to this application, but it's lost on me with this interface. Also, buyer beware if your investment brokerage isn't a Quicken Partner (which is the only way automatic transaction downloading will work), because I have spent over an hour of each day since receiving Quicken trying to set up my 401(k) account manually, and I've failed each and every time.
Although I don't like having to spend $50 or more on an upgrade this often, I am willing since software houses have a legitimate need to not support every version since the beginning of time. Intuit's quicken product has no real competition for what it does at the price it does it, so I will likely continue using and upgrading every three years.
I'm fairly certain that if I could talk to someone at Intuit support, I would equate it to bashing my head into my bedroom drywall for 90 minutes, so no big loss there. A few tips I can offer for trouble shooting "one step update" or manually downloading transactions from your financial institution, for the new initiates out there. The quicken site is a bit misleading in their "new features" list since many of the items they mention were already in the 2010 version. As with past Quicken upgrades, they largely give you MORE of an existing feature, and not much in the way of new features. I am not happy with this version. I sent an email and the response I got from them was incorrect.
Anyway, I love the product. I would recommend it to my friends and family. If I get downloads to be successful for a whole WEEK, I'd be amazed.
I hold off on upgrades at least 2 to 3 years because the changes either are not significant enough or little improvement in its usability. Quicken Home & Business is fantastic! Other than that I was disappointed to hear that there would be no more new versions. Quicken is obviously a second choice for me having used it over 10 years ago and never looking back once I got Money.
Most recently I upgraded to Quicken 2011 Home and Business from Quicken Home and Business 2008. I then upgraded to Windows 7 and had to reinstall the product. I do wish Intuit would shift some of the resources they spend on marketing all sorts of other things I don't want toward modernizing the user interface a bit. In spite of their marketing hype, there is really very little new functionality in each annual edition.
I have no doubt that there is an overarching logic to this application, but it's lost on me with this interface. Also, buyer beware if your investment brokerage isn't a Quicken Partner (which is the only way automatic transaction downloading will work), because I have spent over an hour of each day since receiving Quicken trying to set up my 401(k) account manually, and I've failed each and every time.
Although I don't like having to spend $50 or more on an upgrade this often, I am willing since software houses have a legitimate need to not support every version since the beginning of time. Intuit's quicken product has no real competition for what it does at the price it does it, so I will likely continue using and upgrading every three years.
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