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Rating:  118 reviews
Sales Rank: 57
Format: CD-ROM
Language: English (Original Language)
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows XP
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Windows 7
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.7 x 1.5
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MPN: 409971
Model: 409971
UPC: 028287025004
EAN: 0028287025004
ASIN: B002KIIKCU
Release Date: October 10, 2009
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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 Not an improvement February 6, 2010
Harry Thorne (PA, United States)
Quicken Premier 2007 was still working fine for me, but I did the forced upgrade to 2010 . The upgrade generally went smoothly, though I found at least one account where the handling of the exiting starting balance entry was messed up.
I find that the 2010 version has a somewhat different interface and am still having to hunt for some features. I am unable to see any improvements in the new design, but it's possible that Intuit had user input which prefers the changes.
I have been using the new version for 18 days. My biggest gripe is that the new version misses some transactions during updates. E.g., when I update a credit card, I will find my local balance does not match the online balance. When I go online manually, I see that one or more transactions clearly visible online have not been downloaded while some later ones have been downloaded. I then try to do a manual download including a period from well before the omitted transaction(s) to the present, but Quicken still won't pick them up. I end up giving up and just inserting the transaction(s) manually. The 2007 version missed fewer transactions and the omissions could be fixed by simply doing a manual download covering the relevant period -- without having to search for the problem transactions.
The renaming facility has become annoying also. When Q wants to rename a transaction after accepting a download, it will notify you and supposedly allow you to edit the renaming rules, but it will go ahead and do its planned rename if you change the current rule or even if you delete it.
The program is still very usable. Hopefully there will be some routine updates to fix these problems.
 Argh! Terrible substitute for MS Money!!! February 4, 2010
S. Ellerd (Corpus Christi, TX)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I can't even begin to explain how much this program frustrates me! I am forced to switch to Quicken because Microsoft no longer makes MS Money. MS Money's interface is slick and clean and easily customized. Quicken's is very monotone, has limited customization of views and only lets me see 30 days worth of bills at a time! I had high hopes for this program because of customer loyalty and because my mother uses it and likes it, but it is horrendous! If Intuit is smart they will take some styling and customization cues from MS and listen to the customers who are having to convert from MS to make a better product than either was as a stand alone. As it stands I have both programs on my computer and will continue to use MS Money while tweaking Quicken. Hopefully MS will rethink their stance or Quicken will offer a more useable product.
 Replacement for MS Money February 4, 2010
R. Kelly (MISHAWAKA, IN, US)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
It's taken a while to clean up the mess that the conversion process created as a result of taking my MS Money file and converting it into a Quicken file. But overall, I like the functionality that Quicken offers.
MS Money wasn't the only monopoly and it shows February 2, 2010
M. Porter (Italy)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I have been using financial software since 1988, starting with spreadsheets, moving to Andrew Tobias MYM (Managing Your Money), then to Quicken, then to MS Money and then back to Quicken in 2002.
Let's all just say it; Quicken is a truly terrible product. They charge you for upgrading from year to year, but there is less software changed in a $100 upgrade than there is in a free app on the Apple App Store.
Points:
- Terrible user interface. As others have noted, Quicken's interface has gotten worse and worse from version to version, not better. Buttons are not intuitive, entering transactions into transaction registers is terrible (because Quicken rearranges the fields you're clicking on as you are entering the fields!), you have no flexibility in how you want to arrange the account bar, and there are 3 separate ways on the top of the screen to select everything: the text menu bar, the icons and the tabs. What ever happened to just having icons with text under them and giving the option to nuke the icons or the text?
- Online behavior. Quicken has been synchronizing with online accounts for many years. When I upgraded from Q2007 to Q2010, it lost details for some of my online accounts. Then when I went to set them back up, it gave dropdown boxes which could not be clicked in because they had no content.
- Absolutely terrible support. When I contacts support via chat, the gentleman on the other end spent 30 minutes of my time asking inane questions (I started the chat with "I am using Q2010 H&B, have used Quicken for 10 years, am having trouble with setting up an online account" - over the next 10 minutes, with 1-2 minute pauses between his questions, he asks "What version of Quicken are you using?" "Have you used Quicken before?" "What area of the product are you having trouble with?" Then, he comes back and says that chat support is not available for the online accounts part of the product and I will have to call up paid telephone support at $24/call.
- Truly heinous bugs which are acknowledged from version to version and never fixed. When I download new transactions into my (admittedly large) 100MB Quicken file, it takes approx 15 seconds to accept each transaction, and the screen refreshes constantly for about 10 of those seconds, probably redrawing 10-20 times. This bug was a known behavior as far back as Quicken 2005 and they have done nothing but make it worse. I have 200+ transactions to accept for an account, and I just have to sit back and try to read a book while hitting "accept" for over an hour.
The sad truth is that nobody else has seen fit to enter the market with a superior product and now that MSMoney is gone, Intuit has as much or more of a monopolistic hold on the personal finance market than Microsoft had/has on the operating system market.
Perhaps application stores such as the Apple Store or some PC-version will come along and offer the entrepenurial edge to a new company to product a truly world-class easy-to-use personal finance product. We can only hope.
In the meantime, I, like most of the unhappy people posting reviews here, will continue to be tied to Quicken because there simply is no alternative.
Failed to import Money data February 2, 2010
Thomas Paine (Ashland, OR)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Since MS is no longer making it's Money product which I've used for years, I figured it was finally time to switch t to Quicken. After installing and importing my Money data, Quicken generated a report of data it couldn't import--the report was many pages long. Among the things it couldn't import were a lot of brokerage transactions--and these transactions need to be in the data so when they are eventually sold, the software can handle the nightmarish task of calculating the capital gains treatment of every single little transaction that ever occurs. It would have taken forever to manually import the data so I'm returning the Quicken. Maybe down the road Intuit will figure out how to make it work properly.
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