Quicken 2008 Home & Business [OLD VERSION]
by Intuit
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Software Reviews of Quicken 2008 Home & Business [OLD VERSION]
Customer Review: Don't downgrade to 2008!
Summary: 1 Stars
Don't downgrade to 2008!
Do not buy Quicken unless your willing to be forced to upgrade (downgrade?) to continue receiving transaction downloads every 4 years or so!
This is the second time I've been forced to upgrade to a later version of Quicken to continue with download feature and each time you loose functionality. But this is the worst yet and this is version 5 of this release. So glad I waited to the last minute to install this.
And after all these years Quicken still can't properly sort a column of numbers! ( 9 is greater than 11! Not! )
It's much slower than 2005 version!
Can no longer backup directly to CD! Won't tell you about this before you upgrade. Intuit doesn't recognize it as a bug. No listing on their FAQ for the error "Drive is read-only." Must be a feature (right!) - or more likely a ploy to get you to use online backup.
Heres the "fix" they sent!
"Create a new folder on the desktop.
1. Open quicken program
2. Click on File
3. Click on Backup
4. Click on Browse
5. Select the new folder created on the desktop
6. It will backup the file to the new folder
7. Right click on new folder and then send it to the CD.
8. It will backup the file to the CD. "
In other words - backup to hard drive and copy to CD. Yeah - I figured that out myself.
I think they outsourced development and support and this is what you get!
I may buy a share of Intuit just to be a thorn at next shareholder meeting and vote against the board of directors for some satisfaction!
Customer Review: Quicken Home & Business
Summary: 5 Stars
Have used Quicken for years and the new combined home and business package offers more flexibility and options for an all in one program that track both my home and company expenses! I am very happy with this program, as I tried Quick Books several years back and UGH what a cumbersome process.
Home & Business Quicken is just the right answer for me!!
Customer Review: As so many say ... Quicken just keeps getting worse!
Summary: 1 Stars
I can't adequately express just how dissapointed I am in this new version of Quicken. Like so many I've been a loyal user for years - ~15 years in my case - and for about half of that time each new version got better. Then things started to go downhill. Several times I have tried new versions only to quickly return them for the 30-day money-back guarantee. Now I had to upgrade from 2005 to 2008 to maintain data download.
Sadly, 2008 is awful. My data was corrupted in the conversion process, but this didn't become clear until after I'd been using it for a week. Now reconverting the old file and reenter all that data would be painful - and I should never have to do it in the first place! Online downloads are broken. Old features that I valued have been removed. Existing features have been modified in ways that make them less useful. There are no REAL new features - just cosmetic changes that I would just as soon do without.
I'd give it 0 stars if Amazon would let me!
I don't know what to do now. I'm fed up with Intuit and Quicken, but it seems I have no where else to go. Money sounds just as bad if not worse, and I'm not aware of any other alternatives. If you know of one, post it here. I'm ready to move on!
Customer Review: I Love this program, but it's still a little glitchy
Summary: 5 Stars
We bought Quicken over ten years ago for our personal finances and had Quickbooks for our hair salon business. Quicken, despite being slightly glitchy (whenever you download banking data, if you don't specify exact dates, it will create duplicate entries -otherwise does great!) was always a better, more convenient program than Quickbooks. We do booth rental so we don't have real complex needs. The Quicken Home & Business product does a great job and keeps things in better order than having the two separate products.
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Customer Review: They want you to do all of the work to find & fix their bugs!!!
Summary: 1 Stars
There are several bugs that they haven't fixed yet. They could update your 2008 with the fixes, but they want you to go online, find the problem from over 200 listed and then try to fix it yourself. If you are not already tied into the Quicken web of products, buy something else, and save yourself a head ache.
I WOULD NOT reccomend this product to anyone else!!!