With all the grief that Q2010 seems to be causing, I wonder if it's not as good as Q2009, equally as good, or an improvement.
Would appreciate anyone's opinion. The issue isn't money. I already have the program ... just have been delaying installing it because of all the complaints I've read.
Could it be that some of what you see as grief is people who were not previously using Quicken 2009, but were using Microsoft Money?
I understand that rearranging the human interface can cause grief to people experienced in the earlier version. I think it is in the nature of software designers and marketing people to want to do change as an objective. Now if upper management (not just Intuit) would make "least astonishment" as an objective, that would improve software design.
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Again, if Intuit would just leave Quicken alone (i.e. no more "improvements"), fix the bugs and offer connection services as a subscription-based model, I'd think they (and we!) would do just fine.
Notan wrote in news:_NudnTZN3JTqlQXWnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@giganews.com:
I agree with Notan. FWIW, I have no regrets upgrading from 08 to 10.
Just out of curiosity, why'd you go for 2010 and not wait for 2011, knowing that 2008 won't sunset for another year?
Notan wrote in news:PfWdnR95O5k00wXWnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@giganews.com:
I had been doing every other year for a while, and it seemed time again. Not a very good reason, nor a very frugal one, but there it is.
For me, it's not a matter of frugality, but a matter of the version I'm currently using (2008) works.
Come 2011, it'll be a different story.
Notan wrote in news:p8udncNlIrS3zwXWnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@giganews.com:
That's fine by me. If it works for you, go for it.
I agonized over whether to spend the money on Q2010 given how few new features there were. HOWEVER, in retrospect, I LOVE Q2010 as it resolved one of the most plaguing of all the bugs I had been experiencing ... extreme delays between entering a transaction and receiving control back (same delays applied to each click of each transaction during a reconcile). Q2009 and all prior to it, had it. Q2010 - fixed.
I am very happy to have moved to Q2010
As a programmer from WAY back, we always had to write tight, efficient code, not for speed, but just so programs would run on the current systems.
Nowadays, with microprocessors as fast as they are, and system memory as large as it is, programming has gotten very sloppy.
There's no reason screen changes shouldn't be instantaneous, unless they're subject to outside influences, such as Internet access.
Just my 2 cents.
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