Quicken Online - to end 8/29

it's dead -

Hi, ps56k.

WOW! I hope no user is away on a 2-week vacation! Their data will have been "deleted and securely removed from all Intuit databases" by the time they get home. :>(

So much for caring about customers, Aaron. :>(

RC

And that's why "cloud" computing is very dangerous. Your data is completely at the mercy of some one else...

There was much buzz on the Quicken Online community around July 15th or so. The think a notice was published at that time although I can't find it. They originally indicated that would have some tools to help migrate to Mint, but they have backed away from that. No incentive for Intuit? My Credit Union uses Financial Works (which is basically Quicken Online). No announcement from them.

Oilcan

-----Original Message----- From: R. C. White [mailto: snipped-for-privacy@grandecom.net] Posted At: Thursday, August 19, 2010 11:29 AM Posted To: alt.comp.software.financial.quicken Conversation: Quicken Online - to end 8/29 Subject: Re: Quicken Online - to end 8/29

Hi, ps56k.

WOW! I hope no user is away on a 2-week vacation! Their data will have been "deleted and securely removed from all Intuit databases" by the time they get home. :>(

So much for caring about customers, Aaron. :>(

RC

hmmm - They made such a big deal about the desktop links - quotes, news, charts - all migrated from Yahoo to Quicken's own internal world...

Wonder where these links will point now ? or - maybe it's just the online data portfolio that is deleted, and they will still pretend to offer insightful and useful quote, chart, & news items -

That's why I always wanted to have a Desktop version, even when the Online version seemed to be where everything was heading..... Little did we know that Thelma & Louise were driving the Quicken story....

Wonderful. Now, will that dumb One Step Update Summary window stop showing up every time I download transactions even though I check the box that says "show only with errors" because I made the mistake of trying Quicken Online once years ago?

Thanks, that's probably the best anyone will ever explain it!

Since the demise of Quicken Online has absolutely nothing to do with the Quicken desktop product ... why do you ask this question?

And several "free" photo sharing or photo storage sites have shut down, usually without any warning.

Couple years ago, there was a site used by photography pro's, and it shut down on 24 hours notice. Good (----) luck trying to get into the site to download all your files. :(

If you cloud storage, you had better be prepared to PAY for it.

My two centimes/pence/pfenning/euro cents.

Andrew Hamilton wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

In Holland ? cents are rounded to the nearest "nickel". So you really are a cheap bastid!!!

LOL

What records can't you access today? I thought Mint was an aggregator, and anything you can have Mint obtain you already can, albeit not a nicely formatted and/or messaged? I can access all my financial records from anywhere as long as I have a browser available, including my smart phone and desktop.

Is Quicken.com in One Step Update Quicken Online?

No.

Quicken Online is a stand alone product, in no way related to Quicken. It's more like Mint.

Sorry, I guess I didn't pay attention to your not equals construct. So instead of "No", I should have said, "Yes", Quicken Online and Quicken.com are totally unrelated.

Hi, Robert.

Quicken's One Step Update is a service that runs INSIDE Quicken 2010 Deluxe - or other desktop version of Quicken. This downloads transaction data from your banks and other financial institutions and stores it on your own hard disk in your own computer. OSU also downloads stock quotes and other information for securities in your Quicken Portfolio, also kept inside your computer. And OSU downloads updates to the Quicken program on your computer.

Quicken Online is/was a separate service started by Intuit, apparently to compete with Microsoft Money's online service, which is now defunct, and with Mint, which Intuit has now bought. These are services that keep your data in "the cloud", not on your own computer. The advantage, they say, is that you can access the cloud and read your bank balance and see your transactions from any computer, not just your own.

Quicken.com is a hybrid, sort of. It's Intuit's home base for Quicken. You can give Quicken.com a list of your securities, including the number of shares, from inside the Quicken desktop program, and let it keep those updated on Quicken's computers. It is also the vehicle through which Quicken downloads your daily stock quotes and news for stocks in your Portfolio and Watched List. OSU knows only which shares you want quotes for; Quicken.com knows how many shares you have and can compute your total portfolio value.

NOTE: Much of this is hearsay evidence. I've never used Quicken Online or Mint or any other such "cloud" service. And, even though I've been using desktop Quicken for about 20 years, I've never sent Quicken.com a list of my assets. Like many other Quicken users, I want my own financial information here on my own hard drive, not thousands of miles away under someone else's lock and key. Without getting into all the arguments pro and con, let's just say that the current abrupt closure of Quicken Online is just one example of just one of the things that "cannot possibly" go wrong...go wrong...go wrong...

(If I goofed that up, John, feel free to correct it. ;Since the demise of Quicken Online has absolutely nothing to do with the

Is Quicken.com in One Step Update Quicken Online?

sorry - my fault too....

thought that "Quicken Online" was what we see via the "Quicken.com" mirror to the desktop software portfolio. Should have realized that "Quicken Online" would have much more detail, like the desktop version.... sorta like TurboTax - desktop vs online -

:) Understood!