Quicken Deluxe 2009Reviews: Quicken Deluxe 2009
Binding: CD-ROM Brand: Intuit EAN: 0028287019133 Edition: Deluxe Format: CD-ROM Item Dimensions: Label: Intuit, Inc. Manufacturer: Intuit, Inc. Model: 406483 MPN: ITICD01913WI Platform: Windows XP, Windows Vista Publisher: Intuit, Inc. Release Date: September 09, 2008 Studio: Intuit, Inc. Features:
Rating:  - Intuit strikes again!Once again, Intuit proves it's the greediest company this side of Microsoft. I opened my Quicken 2006 today and got a message that it would no longer be supported after April 30, 2009. Since I use it to download info. from financial institutions, I figured I was going to be forced to give Intuit more money. Well, I won't have to since Intuit no longer supports Windows 2000 (this is the last year TurboTax will work for Windows 2000. Since I have no intention to completely scrap my OS for products with reviews as bad as Quicken 2009 and TurboTax, I'll be taking my business elsewhere. My fervent hope is that Intuit goes out of business and does not get a government bailout. Rating:  - No problem with 2009 here...I have used Quicken for about 15 years. My most recent version was Quicken 2006. Since they do not support Quicken for more than three years I was forced to buy 2009. Given the bad reviews I was expecting the worst. That conern was not supported by the flawless installation of 2009 I experienced on my PC. Everything went perfectly including the update to version 3.0. I'm not sure why some many poeple had issues. My Quicken data base is very large including banking and investment transactions, etc. I would highly recommend this product however I find it hard to accept Intuit's policy requiring updates every 3 years. 2009 is essentially a cosmetic rework of 2006, nothing significant in terms of new features and functionality. Just a way to provide Intuit with a revenue stream.... Rating: - Intuit / Quicken products seem to be detriorating in quality every yearI have been a quicken and turbo tax user for the past 10+ years. I currently own quicken 2008 home and business. The product stopped working on 1/1/2009 due to some bug in the software. I have been unable to use quicken since then (without having to do a unwanted workaround which includes changing the system time). Quicken tech support has been aware of this issue and they still haven't provided a fix for this fatal issue. Based on my experience and reviews on this site, the quality of software from intuit/quicken/turbo tax has been deteriorated. Rating: - Do not recommendIf you are an existing Quicken user, here's what you will find with 2009. 1) It is buggy. I'm now running the third release of Q2009 and it still crashes on me regularly. I've never seen Quicken crash and I've been using it for over a decade. 2) Your online banking may stop working. Mine did. Quicken Help suggests deactivating the accounts and reactivating them to get them working again. It worked for me. 3) It's noticeably slower. It's most apparent during a reconciliation where a click on a check takes a full second to accept. Clicking on an existing transaction in the register takes a full second to obtain focus. It was not this way in Q2007. 4) If you use the calculator in the amount field, you now have to press 5) New categories will suddenly appear in your category list. You will need to delete them. 6) Minor changes to the interface. Some are okay, like the new tabs across the top. None are ground breaking. The interfaces that should have been fixed, like manually matching the downloaded banking transactions to the existing transactions in the register, were not touched. Still very poor feedback when doing an Update from your bank accounts. The Account List is very different. I find its new creativity gets in the way of usability. Little, unexplained icons now appear on your register and other parts of the interface. Overall - a $90 disappointment. I do not recommend this version of Quicken, especially not at this time while it is so buggy. Wait and see how 2010 works out. Rating: - Worst Software Ever CreatedFoolishly, I did not read the reviews in Amazon before upgrading to 2009. Not only is the software even more unnecessarily complicated and confusing, it does not even work or provide any useful help. I finally upgraded from 2004, as the old software blocked any imports of QIF format files. I then upgraded to 2009, and it will not import any file format (QFX, QIF, OFX) from my financial institution. I have attempted to contact tech support via email multiple times, but they have not answered. I am ready to reverse the charges on my credit card as the sale of this product is fraud. Quicken Deluxe 2009 ReviewsMore reviews:Buy Quicken Deluxe 2009 Sale Reviews Deals
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