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| A strange thing has happened in the past few days. Whenever I try to | update the stock prices in my portfolio online, I get a message | stating that an error has occurred, and please restart Quicken. When | I restart, the data file seems not to load. Everything seems to be | corrupted. Backup files will not load. The corruption has now spread | to four different computers. | | By a very strange coincidence, on the same day as this first occurred, | I got an email from Intuit Canada, stating | | "Intuit Canada is making changes to its Quicken 2002 support services. | After March 31, 2007, | Quicken 2002 users will no longer have access to the following | services: | | Technical support by telephone or email | Product updates (including Internet updates) | Patches | Maintenance releases | Replacement CDs" | | Is it possible that Intuit included a destructive applet in its One | Step Updates to force Q2002 users to upgrade? | | Anyone else experiencing similar problems? | | I have been using Quicken for over 10 years, and in general consider | each so-called "upgrade" to be a retrograde step, adding more and more | fluffery to the detriment of the basic functionality that used to work | so well. I will be seriously looking at alternative software options, | before I upgrade to the latest bloated "2007 Suite". I really resent
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| A strange thing has happened in the past few days. Whenever I try to | update the stock prices in my portfolio online, I get a message | stating that an error has occurred, and please restart Quicken. When | I restart, the data file seems not to load. Everything seems to be | corrupted. Backup files will not load. The corruption has now spread | to four different computers. | | By a very strange coincidence, on the same day as this first occurred, | I got an email from Intuit Canada, stating | | "Intuit Canada is making changes to its Quicken 2002 support services. | After March 31, 2007, | Quicken 2002 users will no longer have access to the following | services: | | Technical support by telephone or email | Product updates (including Internet updates) | Patches | Maintenance releases | Replacement CDs" | | Is it possible that Intuit included a destructive applet in its One | Step Updates to force Q2002 users to upgrade? | | Anyone else experiencing similar problems? | | I have been using Quicken for over 10 years, and in general consider | each so-called "upgrade" to be a retrograde step, adding more and more | fluffery to the detriment of the basic functionality that used to work | so well. I will be seriously looking at alternative software options, | before I upgrade to the latest bloated "2007 Suite". I really resent | being forced to pay for features that are of no earthly use to me, and | that simply detract from the simple basic stuff that I need. | | Regards | Islander
You are lucky to last this long. Usually Internet support is only for three years. Q'02 Internet support should have ended in 2005.