News icons on Portfolio view

Hi, Jo.

In Quicken 2013, I'm still seeing the News icons in the Portfolio view just like they've been for several years. I hover the mouse over one of them and the news for that security appears - if there is any. There may be up to 3 stories, with the newest at the top. I've never checked how many days they stay before scrolling off and disappearing. If I click on any story, my browser (IE10) automatically fires up and presents a page of recent stories, with the newest at the top and the one I just clicked on opened for me to read.

I do have a couple of gripes:

1. The font they use often produces the wrong characters, especially for quotation marks, giving me a bit of ASCII garbage.

1. In news about Dell, they often tell me about the DellOro Group!

How long is "extremely out of date"? I see no news icon today for MSFT and a couple of others.

RC

-- -- R. C. White, CPA San Marcos, TX (Retired. No longer licensed to practice public accounting.) snipped-for-privacy@grandecom.net Microsoft Windows MVP (2002-2010) (Using Quicken Deluxe 2013 R 11 and Windows Live Mail in Win8 x64)

Do these have any meaning anymore? Everyone I look at is extremely out of date.

Hi R.c.

Going back to check the news icons shows me what was misleading. The date on the snapshot of an arbitrary news item may refer to something 2 years ol d, but if I ignore the date and click on the icon, 2013 news items come up. For instance, the icon for IBM news items referred to 2011 4th quarter and year end results. Clicking on the icon gives you 2013 news. Do you hav e any idea of why the snapshots aren't more current? I've been ignoring th em for months, thinking they just weren't working. AT best it isn't helpfu l.

How do you like IE 10? I had been hesitating about upgrading to IE 9 becau se a) wasn't sure I wanted to deal with any dramatic learning curve (an ass umption that there would be one) and b) a knowledgeable associate was anno yed that they merged the address and search boxes (is that a big deal?). I 'm not sure if that would bother me or not. At the risk of hijacking the t hread, what +/-s can I expect in I.E. 10? You can PM me if you don't want to post it in this thread.

jo

Hi, Jo.

I'm not sure what you mean by a "snapshot" of a news item. All I see are one-liners that seldom mention a date until I click on them to see the full news item.

As to IE10 and the learning curve: I've been on the learning curve since the day I was born and hope to be on it for many more years. ;^)

Perhaps my adaptability and willingness to keep learning is partly from my years as an auditor and public accountant. Our "normal day" usually involved working with several different accounting systems in different lines and sizes of business. We might deal with a one-man bicycle shop in the morning, a county water district in the afternoon, with interruptions from a printing shop and a car dealer along the way. Shifting gears was a routine activity and became second nature. So adjusting from IE6 to IE7 to IE8 to IE9 to IE10 to whatever comes next is as natural as sticking with what we already know - and are getting bored with. ;^}

IE10 came along with Windows 8. In fact, there are two flavors of IE10 in Win8: The "Metro" or "Modern" version, plus the more-like-earlier-IE "desktop" version. I use both versions several times most days and seldom stop to see which one is running. I LIKE the desktop version better, but switching is no big deal.

It's much like the annual updates to the newest Quicken. After an hour or two of familiarization, I rarely think about last year's Quicken again.

RC

-- -- R. C. White, CPA San Marcos, TX (Retired. No longer licensed to practice public accounting.) snipped-for-privacy@grandecom.net Microsoft Windows MVP (2002-2010) (Using Quicken Deluxe 2013 R 11 and Windows Live Mail in Win8 x64)

Hi R.c.

Going back to check the news icons shows me what was misleading. The date on the snapshot of an arbitrary news item may refer to something 2 years old, but if I ignore the date and click on the icon, 2013 news items come up. For instance, the icon for IBM news items referred to 2011 4th quarter and year end results. Clicking on the icon gives you 2013 news. Do you have any idea of why the snapshots aren't more current? I've been ignoring them for months, thinking they just weren't working. AT best it isn't helpful.

How do you like IE 10? I had been hesitating about upgrading to IE 9 because a) wasn't sure I wanted to deal with any dramatic learning curve (an assumption that there would be one) and b) a knowledgeable associate was annoyed that they merged the address and search boxes (is that a big deal?). I'm not sure if that would bother me or not. At the risk of hijacking the thread, what +/-s can I expect in I.E. 10? You can PM me if you don't want to post it in this thread.

jo

By snapshots, I mean the icons next to the security in Portfolio View. Min e don't always mention a date, but the one for IBM did, and few of them are just one-liners. I see anywhere from 1-3 items in the news icon, often fol lowed ...More. I checked DIS and it also mentions a date for reports on " Rentrak Sales and Rentals for .... Jan 2012".

When you click the news icon, you are taken to 2013 news, not what you see in the Quicken icon. Could this be because I am running vsn 2011 (under Win 7)? It's certainly not my biggest beef with Quicken, but it would be n ice to have current news represented in those icons.

Guess I'll consider upgrading IE. Do you think I should jump from vsn 8 al l the way to Vsn 10, or take is cautiously and try vsn 9 first? Does vsn 1