FYI: Money's Dead; Can Quicken Be Far Behind?

No surprise there... Once they killed Money at retail it was obvious what was going to happen. MS should have just been up front about killing it though. Saying it was an online product was a bit dishonest.

Quicken online? Not that I like the product, I can almost but not quite get what I need through Bank of America which has ties to Yodlee. I wonder if things would be different if MS was successful in buying Quicken in the mid-90's (and divesting Money).

Oilcan

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No surprise there... Once they killed Money at retail it was obvious what was going to happen. MS should have just been up front about killing it though. Saying it was an online product was a bit dishonest.

re/",,,Can Quicken Be Far Behind?"

Gawd, I hope not. Quicken is my number one app I use on the computer. I can't imagine going back to anything that doesn't have the features that Q does. Well, I suppose there will be some type of substitutes available (line HOME editions of Quickbooks :-) ).

Intuit at least sounds like it is trying to avoid Money's fate.

Thanks for the pointer John - I like the last couple of paragraphs about Quicken's perceived future. One big concern I have is that since MS is out of the picture now, Q has no real competition on the desktop; not sure how much that might have mattered in the past, but competition tends to drive prices down and features up in an open market. Well, we'll see.

Hi, John.

Thanks for the heads-up.

I agree with Andrew's comments and concerns. Those of us who have complained about Quicken's "high" prices may soon have some higher prices to gripe about. To me, Quicken's current prices are quite reasonable, but without competition, they may soar. But, of course, Money has not been serious competition for the last several years.

One sentence in the story doesn't sound exactly right: "Intuit has produced Quicken for Windows for more than 25 years."

As I recall, Quicken is more than 25 years old, but the "for Windows" version debuted in about 1991 - just after I started with Quicken for MS-DOS.

RC

It seems to me that there's one VERY bright spot in all of this ...

When people are bitching about Q's "sunset policy", they can't threaten to switch to MSM any more! (as if we cared)

db

I wish I could remember when I first used Quicken for DOS. I vaguely remember using another checkbook program but not when I started with Quicken. Did some searching and found this link:

Seems to give a good history of Intuit.

I started with DOS version of Managing Your Money, switched to Quicken when Tobias quit the business. Hate to think when that was - probably in the early

80s.

Robert Neville wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

Same here, but with Dollars and $ense

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re/",,,Can Quicken Be Far Behind?" Gawd, I hope not. Quicken is my number one app I use on the computer. I can't imagine going back to anything that doesn't have the features that Q does. Well, I suppose there will be some type of substitutes available (line HOME editions of Quickbooks :-) ). Intuit at least sounds like it is trying to avoid Money's fate.

Thanks for the pointer John - I like the last couple of paragraphs about Quicken's perceived future. One big concern I have is that since MS is out of the picture now, Q has no real competition on the desktop; not sure how much that might have mattered in the past, but competition tends to drive prices down and features up in an open market. Well, we'll see.

The competition is coming from banking web sites and web 2.0 which has the potential to make Quicken pretty much obsolete. It's obsolete for me now. I've gone all Linux now and was running Quicken in a VMWare machine. I have vastly consolidated my finances since becoming debt free (finally) and now do most of my banking with Wells Fargo. They have a pretty good web site. Other than Wells Fargo I have a Vanguard investment account (got rid of Fidelity and TD Waterhouse and Schwab, etc.) I went from having 99 Quicken accounts to a core of around 10. Not having many bills to pay anymore web banking now handles most of my needs. And I use mint.com for my reporting needs which again are vastly reduced. My final hold out was Home & Business where i used to generate my invoicing when voila! I get an email from Wells Fargo and they are providing invoicing now. So bye, bye Quicken!

I know, it's not for everybody and there'll be many Quicken hold outs. Trust me I was a Quicken weenie for a long time tracking my wallet account and Pocket Quickening, etc. I let go. I gave up. My life's simpler and better now and you know for the vast majority of people out there - web banking's good enough for them. Intuit will always have competition as will any legitimate business in a free market place.

Whoa! There's a blast from the past. Whatever happened to Dollars and $ense? I guess the same thing that happened to VisiCalc and Lotus 123.

I used MYM for DOS until just a couple of years ago. MYM had a version for Windows, but apparently it never worked out.

I used MYM for Windows after migrating from MYM for DOS. The Window version was great. You could have sub-windows open for each account.

When I first used MYM, I had a PC Jr with one diskette drive and 128K of RAM. I had to load the program, then change to the data diskette once the program was running. Backup was simple. I had another diskette.

My first software was Parson Technology's MoneyCounts. Went to Money, hated it and then tried Quicken 5. Ah, the days when AMEX updates would not work several days at a time. I switched to Discover, because the downloads almost always worked as did my banking with First Interstate.

Oilcan

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Dollars

I used MYM for Windows after migrating from MYM for DOS. The Window version was great. You could have sub-windows open for each account.

When I first used MYM, I had a PC Jr with one diskette drive and 128K of

RAM. I had to load the program, then change to the data diskette once the program was running. Backup was simple. I had another diskette.