best/worst Quicken versions?

With those holdings, YOU should be having a PROFESSIONAL accountant handling your financial affairs.

I have no idea how you did your research ... but, in my experience, your conclusion is wrong.

I use Q2008 Premier on a regular basis (since shortly after it was released) ... it is as reliable as any previous version of Quicken I have ever used (Q2000, Q2001, Q2001, Q2005 regularly - and Q2004, Q2006, Q2007, Q2009, and Q2010 for testing) ... and more reliable than most. [Frankly, I had more problems with Q2006 and Q2007 than with any other Quicken versions I ever used ... though I have always tended to think that most of those problems were more related to having multiple Quicken versions installed on the same machine.]

I regularly test with Q2009 and Q2010 ... and I do not see any more meaningful problems with them, than I do with Q2008.

I urge you to be extremely careful about the source of your research.

On Aug 26, 3:30 pm, hazelone_at_mail_dot snipped-for-privacy@foo.com (W95Q96) wrote:  Husband wants me to use QuickBooks, but I

I use QuickBooks Pro with payroll for our small law practice (one lawyer, two staff). As a monthly subscriber I get a free upgrade every year. I use Quicken for our household accounting and upgrade it every year at the same as I purchase the current QuickTax. I've been using QuickBooks for more than five years and Quicken even longer.

In general I prefer QuickBooks because it has a more traditional approach, e.g. real 'accounts' for income and expenses rather than the 'categories' used in Quicken. It does a good job in handling trust accounts, receivables, payables and remitting taxes. The payroll component makes paycheques a breeze and worth the extra cost even for two employees.

I use Quicken mostly because it makes it easy to manage and track our retirement investments. Over the years it has moved further away from a traditional bookkeeping approach. I really don't like using categories, instead of accounts, for income and expenses. The changes over the years have been largely cosmetic, sometimes for the worse in my opinion. But I put up with it because of the investment module and because I now have 13 years of data in the Quicken file.

Hope this helps.

Marianne

I'm using Quicken 2008 and have not had any problems with it. When it is no longer supported I will upgrade to the newest version so that I can continue to do bank downloads.

As a side note, with the type of businesses your husband has, you would be better off using QuickBooks Pro especially if you need to track A/R or A/P. Quicken just does not do a very good job managing businesses. You need a real accounting program for them.

Ahhhh! The original "Quicken" that I bought in the mid 1980's (1983 or

It was just a simple "check register" program that allowed you to basically enter and track your checks on your PC. It then allowed printing checks but did not include any other routine. Just a check register that allowed your PC to make all the math calculations upon entry. I bought it for my Apple-clone Franklin ACE-1000 where I had been running "Time Is Money," a bit more sophisticated application than Quicken but, IMO, easier to use than the other competing home banking app, "Dollars & Sense."

Of course, these were all MS-DOS Basic versions and there was no inkling at that time that "versions" or "upgrades" would ever appear in our language.

Strictly just for the record, I did some research and found at