Quicken 2005 online services discontinuation

I've been using Q since1994, back then I upgraded because I wanted to not because I was forced to upgrade. IMO Q2001 was the best version. I just upgraded from Q2005 to Q2008 due to the service discontinuation as you mentioned and I was not impressed at all. It seems Q2005 going forward is all bloatware and it's been all downhill for Intuit since that C-Dilla/Turbo Tax debatable. I dumped Turbo Tax for TaxCut then and more than likely this is the last time they will force us to upgrade. Next time it will be MS MONEY if not sooner because Q2008 sucks. I may just shit-can Q2008 within a couple weeks and just go with MS Money and be done with it

Yeah...they didn't tell us it was subscription software did they? And if it did state so in some obscure place, that is a problem in and of itself!

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With luck, maybe only the interface to financial institutions via the Quicken website will be pulled, and we can still access our accounts directly with those institutions (as some do already).

Yep, I've been using TaxCut ever since too. Have been increasingly annoyed with all the ads inside of the quicken product and am sad to hear they've continued this practice.

Biggie for me is whether Fidelity will support a Money feed. If so I'm gone. Will post back to group.

Three years of financial tracking and planning function with daily downloads of all of my banking and investment transactions. All for about the price of a movie, a soft drink, and popcorn for two. It just doesn't seem that bad a deal to me.

So in other words, bend over and take it like a man?

Em, no thanks.

you're right, it isn't - after all, what did you (we) pay for Quicken

but that isn't the point.

what irks me is being held hostage by these companies - "Pay Up or Screw you..." especially when it seems like they changed the terms of use long after you pony'd up the $$

..just like Microsoft and their ridiculous and flawed activation schemes - where they force the honest paying customers, practically at gun point, to prove over and over and over and over again that they're not a thief - otherwise, they lock down YOUR computer and hold YOUR data hostage. Ironically, their strongarm tactics only punish the innocent, and not the "pirates" they deem to be such a problem - those guys figured out how to circumvent this crap a long time ago.

..they may as well show up at your house in ski masks and shove a Glock in your face, at least then you wouldn't mind so much.

I agree that it isn't a bad deal; it's a good deal.

But I also object to what Intuit does. They don't advertise Quicken as coming with three years of financial tracking, they advertise it as coming with financial tracking, period. It's deceptive marketing, and it's basically dishonest.

E X A C T L Y ! ! !

}With luck, maybe only the interface to financial institutions via the }Quicken website will be pulled, and we can still access our accounts }directly with those institutions (as some do already).

I had just figured out the one step update (neat concept when it works) but then some banks changed their login procedures. I had been manually downloading QIF files into Quicken for years and then through web connect. One of my accounts still uses QIF files. So much for progress... ;)

This is not the first time that they have done this to me. I as strong armed into going to 2005, for the same BS reason, which was just the same warmed over piece of crap software as the previous version. There is nothing on the market that is as poorly conceived and implemented as Quicken and I have been using it for over 20 years, but no more.

I did try MS Money, last time, with no joy. I going to buy a new version of Money before I get BF by this outfit again.

Greg

my *guess* would be yes if Fidelity works with Quicken... I'm linked to Prudential and they support both. My problem is if I could import Q2008 data into the current version MS Money. It looks like Money is still at 2007 so I may have to wait until the next release, I'll have to find out for sure

That's it. I'm done. They forced me to upgrade to QW2005 and now in are doing it again. Between the damn quotes service issues and this, I'm going to MS Money. My bank and financial institutions support it and now I will too.

Bye Bye Quicken! Hope your sales drop. You jsut lost me, my office, and everyone that asks me for adive on the future?

Here is some info of interest from cnet.com review

"Unfortunately, you'll be forced to upgrade periodically if you rely upon either application's links to online financial institutions--that access expires every other year for Money and after every three versions for Quicken. "

Quicken still sucks.

Good bye. Don't let the door hit you. Doug, using Quicken since Dollars and $ense went away

Really, DG, it is so annoying for those of us who are happy users to find our newsgroup filled with anti-Intuit rants. Everybody rips me off: Verizon controls the functionality of my LG phone, Norton wants a renewal EVERY YEAR for my anti-virus program, and both Intuit and Microsoft do this with their financial programs. Bend over and take it like a man. But if you must rant, please rant to Intuit, not to us here, because we neither care nor - more importantly - can grant you any relief.

DG wrote:

You have to understand who you are dealing with. Those folk are maladjusted. In their world, "someone" else is ALWAYS responsible for their problems.

None of them could ever find, or create, a better product ... but they can't stand the fact that they can not have exactly what they want.

They are desparate to pretend that they can not find what they want because everyone else is inferior to them.

Wish we could see your rant after you try to get MS Money to work and again when you're forced to upgrade every three years.....

Good luck.

Actually, every two years ... or less.