upgrade recommend ?

Good choice! I run Quicken 2004 Basic and have been very satisified with the program. I have read many complaints regarding Q2005 on this newsgroup. Perhaps Q2006 will be an improvement over Q2005.

Frankly, I never get involved in recommending versions of Quicken.

But I can tell you that I tested Q2004 and Q2005 extensively over the past several months: and I found not one reason to think that Q2004 was better than Q2005 ... unless you have a significant interest in importing QIF files to investment accounts. And I have read every post in this group over that period of time; none of which altered my opinion.

A major problem with every new "version" of Quicken is that Intuit changes the way you're supposed to do things. Everything is (of course) an "enhancement" or a new feature. However, people are creatures of habit. Therefore many of us balk, grumble and cuss when forced to do things differently from the way we're used to.

I think the only objective way to judge whether a version of Quicken is "better" than another is to find out how fast and how often Intuit issues updates. In that, I believe that Q05 was better then 04 because there were fewer updates. But I'm going by memory, I never used either 03 or 04. Now I'm (moderately) happy with 05. I think it handles nicer than my old 02, although Intuit should have left the QIF alone. Partially removing that was a major setback. I now (luckily only a few times) had to generate a new crazy account, just to import a qif file, then move the transactions to an existing one, and delete the crazy account.

On Mon 18 Apr 2005 05:45:26a, Bill wrote in news:1113821126.097887.62330 @f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com:

I bought Q2005D about 4 months ago to get the rebate. I am running Q2004D while Q2005 matures in the box.

On Mon 18 Apr 2005 11:00:40a, Margaret Wilson wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@news4.newsguy.com:

I probably have not followed the complaints closely enough, but I had the impression that more of the complaints were from people running on older releases of Windows.

On Fri 22 Apr 2005 09:03:09p, John Pollard wrote in news:x1iae.10773 $NU4.9016@attbi_s22:

Have you made the switch to Q2005 or are you still also running Q2004?

Yes, I made the switch to Q2005 (R2, by the way) on April 20. So far things have gone without a hitch, though I did quite a bit of preparation before cutting over.

How come your copy hasn't been updated to R3?

Notan

I chose not to. Some of the problems I read about with Q2005 seemed to trouble R3 users more than others. I did a lot of testing using R2 and did not have any problems that I could tie to R2, so I have just left it that way. (The list of "fixes" in R3 did not seem to have much impact for me, but I will be keeping my eye open for related problems.)

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On Tue 26 Apr 2005 01:55:51a, Hank Arnold wrote in news:VBlbe.980$ snipped-for-privacy@fe11.lga:

Intuit has written several releases of Q2005 bug fixes, I have completed my taxes, and John Pollard has tested Q2005 out pretty thoroughly and feels confident enough to make the switch all while my Q2005D sat in the box (plus I got the December rebate).

I believe it is about ready now for prime time.