Is quicken 2008 worth the upgrade?

Why do you care what others think? If you don't like Q2008, you can return it and get your money back.

You should've checked here first, or read the reviews. CNET clearly states there's no compelling reason to upgrade from the 2007 version. Why whine about it here after the fact? Just get a refund.

Your commentary might mean more if you specified the version you are upgrading from. If it's Q07, then that's pretty routine. It's not often that year to year upgrades are dramatically different. There certainly have been years when this is not the case, but it's the "norm".

It's when you skip a year or more that the changes are more dramatic. If you follow this ng, you'd see that many of us skip every other year (not me, I'm an addict).

Despite others taking you to task for the post, I won't, and thank you for posting. Why? Because maybe in the thread others might say "no" and offer incite into why they think it WAS worth posting. I haven't purchased 2008 yet and am "desperately" looking for a reason to do so - there must be something in the release I'd like to pick up.

I upgraded from 07, and have kept upgrading annually for the last few years. Each year I have seen some new feature that at least marginally justifies the upgrade, but the 07 to 08 upgrade cannot be justified at all (at least for me). I recall that in 07 the new feature worth upgrading was attachment of check copies or receipt copies to transactions, for me that was a nice feature. I cannot find something as useful in 08 list of features.

As to why I do not return it, it is because then after a while I will not be able to update stock prices through quicken 07 and I need 08 to do that.

"Hank Arnold (MVP)" wrote in news:5ntGi.149$ snipped-for-privacy@newsfe12.lga:

I am upgrading from Quicken 2006 and also don't see the need. I tried Quicken 2007 last year and prefered my old 2006 version. Tried the new 2008 and it seems to have slowed down significantly. I am just concerned since they only allow you to use a version that is a couple of years old (and get all the online features). Return it.

By the time you can't update stock prices through 2007, 2009 or 2010 will be out. From the viewpoint of updates and connection services, there's no reason to update more often than every second or third year.

I have 2007 and am skipping 2008.

Guy

Although I haven't "upgraded" I think you'll find that most people feel the same as you.

Assuming that Intuit has $50 million in the bank and you have $500 in the bank, Intuit now has approx. $50,000,070 and you have approx. $430, It's not an "upgrade"; it's simply a transfer of cash. After all, it's your responsibility to keep the economy running smoothly!

Yes.

You must have an older system and/or OS. Intuit, as with many other software vendors, assumes users are getting newer systems with tons of RAM, hard drive space, processor speed (or speeds with dual/quad core chips), video cards, etc... Quicken 2008 zips right along on my system, a newer one about 3 months old. Maybe it's time to update your hardware?

PT> I have upgraded to quicken 2008 and I am absolutely PT> disappointed. I have not seen a single feature that was worth PT> the upgrade. This was the most pointless quicken upgrade in PT> recent years. I was wondering if this sentiment is shared by PT> others? Yes. And not only about Q2008, but about many mature apps, and probably especially and in particular MS Office 2007 and Vista.

It's basically a marketing problem. How to provide legitimate support (bug fixes, some feature additions) to an already established product? Offer new, full versions is dishonest. But there seems no way to offer a modest new version at a modest price.

The PC I am running it on is about a year old, dual core Athlon. Still runs XP. Maybe it is because it "only" has a Gig of RAM.

I ran an experiment comparing the 06 amd 08 verions (still running 06 on another PC). Ran both with the Task Manager running. Quicken 08 starts up using 50 Megs of memory. When I click thru the accounts it grows rapidly. I have about 50 accounts - when I clicked thru all of them it hit over 600 Megs.

Did the same with 06 version. Starts up using 28 Megs. I opened EVERY one of my 50 accounts - only used 46 Megs of RAM.

Apparently the new version must suck in EVERY transaction when clicking on the account. I have probably 20 years of transactions.

I think I will stick with Quicken 06.

Time for more RAM, or a look at your configuration. Regardless, it's great you have a version you're happy with.

I don't understand. Intuit only disables features like that after 3+ years..... You should be able to skip to Q09 0r Q10 with no problem....

Intuit has done what Microsoft tried to do -- force people to subscribe to their product instead of buy it. Because intuit "sunsets" online updates (probably the single most useful feature) after three years they are assured that one third of their customers will "upgrade" each year given them a guaranteed minimum cash flow.

However, to do that they must release a "new" versi>>>>>> "PT" == Per T>

But they were releasing a new version every year well before they began sunsetting.

Shhhhh... you promised you wouldn't talk about Intuit's business model for Quicken. Now you've let the cat out of the bag.....

(you have to remember that Intuit's responsibility is to its shareholders, not its customers.)

Those coders in India have sooooo many mouths to feed.