Quicken 2008 New Features

Bloody waste of money: My Quicken 2002 works just fine, thank you. I don't expect a relatively cheap piece of software to wipe my butt for me, then dispose of the t.p, then remind me when it is time to go next.

May I ask, why are you here? I've only been monitoring this group for a couple of weeks, but nearly everything you've posted in that time has been negative or insulting. This response that you just posted is essentially the same response you gave me when I asked about a rebate fro 2008. Had I listened to you, I wouldn't have purchased Q2008 and would have resigned myself to sticking with MS Money. Instead, I purchased it two days ago, and I have to say, it's an excellent product, based on what I've seen so far.

We get that you don't upgrade, you hate new things, you don't like change, yada, yada, yada, but for cryin' out loud, knock it off with the negativity. Some people enjoy new toys...

On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 14:40:52 -0500, Matt F wrote: : Here's a list of new features for 2008. Are there enough features to : warrant more $$ out of pocket? I'm on the wait and see camp. :

Just for clarification. I have the 2007 version so these "new features" are slight upgrade at best to me. If there are any major features/functionality that I'm missing or is worth the upgrade, please let me know!

M@

I'm with you. I still use Quicken 2001 because I can't easily import my credit card QIF file in the new versions like I can in 2001.

Sharx35 will be the first to tell you..."Killfile me; I'm an asshole."

Those people who focus on NEW toys or who consider a bloody financial program a TOY, need to get a life and REALLY should get some interests that aren't so shallow.

I'd NEVER call YOU an asshole, Jim. An asshole has a USE.

So many people, these days, are such suckers for the marketing wings of various corporations that they believe that they have to have the NEWEST and MOST expensive of everything in order to live the American or the Canadian or the whatever Dream. I don't buy into the marketing bullshit--part of the reason I was able to retire from full-time employment 19 years ago, at age

1. I use my money wisely and if something works okay, I seldom replace it unless the newer version has features that I DESPERATELY need RFN. That is seldom the case. I bought my 99 Camry new, for cash, and see no reason why it won't last until 2014..making depreciation a non factor. I also don't have to have the latest big screen TV..or computer monitor. I just wait a while for the prices to come down, then buy the 2nd or 3rd tier...e.g. I got my 19 inch LCD monitor for dirt cheap.

Fortunately, I purchased Q-07 less than 60 days ago, so was able to get a refund and then purchase Q-08. As a long-time Money user, I've periodically tried Quicken over the years -- always preferred Money until the 07 version of Quicken, now Money is uninstalled ;)

I'm not a power-user: some credit card accounts, a couple loans, a 401k, checking, etc -- but the upgrade is a good one. Once you get used to the new navigation, it's quite nice and adds a new level of intuitiveness to the program. Also, being able to add and sync my PayPal account is a nice update as well. Might be that neither of these are enough for you to go from 07 to 08, but in my situation it worked out (with the refund and then re-purchase). Other than that, the 2 versions 'feel' very similar. Never used 'classes', so the changes to that feature don't effect me.

Thank you for posting that. I would have ignored Q2008 since I already have Q2007 Premier, but some of those enhancements are interesting. Quicken's use of budget data has never been great but it sounds like they've enhanced that significantly in the new version. I'm not sure what they've done as far as categorizing and recording expenses, but it sounds like it might be useful. So is downloading from Paypal although that isn't a big deal for me.

But $90 to upgrade is a lot for those features. I'll watch the offers when TurboTax becomes available and also for other deals and decide then. Bernie

My major problem with past versions of Quicken is the inability to create a budget from scheduled transactions rather than manually or from actual transactions. Has that changed at all in Q2008 ?

What was your learning curve from Money to Q-08? I am a long time user of Money, but my Money 2004 has run out of online time. Money 2008 has a shorter recycle time and will not run on Win2K. Further, it wants to really push you to the MS network features. It looks like Q-08 solves all those problems. How much of hassle is it going to be to move my data from Money-04 to Q-08.

Thanks,

Mike

No idea -- didn't even try, just started from scratch...

Ditto here. I'm running Money 2006 and Q2008 in parallel, and I wanted to try things "the Quicken way", so I started my Quicken data file from scratch. Fairly painless process so far.

Meant to add, the only "pain" I've suffered so far is with the "placeholders" in my 401(k) accounts. Those have been a bit of a pain, I haven't figured out the best way to backfill all of that data yet.

How are you going to get the last 1 or 2 years transactions that are in Money 2006 into Quicken 2008?

Mike