Quicken for 2010

Hi, Bob.

I've not heard any rumors, but the new version usually appears in about August.

RC

Since the last two years have had little meaningful improvements, what's the point? I'm thinking that Q is a mature, annuity-stream driven product - esp with MM out of the picture. I do hope there will be functional enhancements (I wish they'd get CDs right!), but I doubt it.

How can they produce income w/o new products?

MSFT decided the annual improvements were so trivial that there was no reason to release a new version every year so... people stopped buying every year and the product was discontinued as unprofitable. Intuit can't make the same mistake, they will continue to release new products and continue to force obsolescense of older products, it's necessary to the company's survival.

There will be, there always are. For several versions the improvements (or deprovements!) have had little or no effect on me but they probably do for some?

I agree. Since they can't market bug fixes, I suspect we'll see some minor tweaks to the UI and a couple of meaningless new features along with a new & improved retail price that reflects the lack of competition from MS Money.