Customer Reviews for Quicken 2008 Home & Business [OLD VERSION]

Quicken 2008 Home & Business [OLD VERSION]
by Intuit

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Software Reviews of Quicken 2008 Home & Business [OLD VERSION]

Customer Review: Painless but (unfortunately) necessary upgrade
Summary: 4 Stars

I upgraded from Quicken 2005 Home & Business today because all the download features would stop working tomorrow (Intuit's policy is to disable download capabilities after 3 years). The upgrade and required file conversion were quick and painless.

On starting the new version 2 credit card accounts would no longer work with "web-connect." It turns out that these two accounts could now be used with (the much more convenient) one step update process. After spending a few minutes on configuration the accounts now update with all the others. A little confusing but a nice touch!

I experienced no problems with flickering screens despite using a wireless mouse and Microsoft's mouse software. All-in-all a good experience. I would have awarded 5 stars except that the only reason for upgrading was to avoid loss of functionality per the Intuit license agreement.

Customer Review: Quicken FAILS
Summary: 1 Stars

I have been a quicken used for 10+ years. Also use quickpayroll(was quickpay and was morphed into quickpayroll years ago). I am a busy business owner and deal with lots of various colleagues, suppliers, etc for 27 years. The intuit organization is perhaps THE very poorest organization I deal with, not responsive, crappy products, lots of bugs, I am SICK AND TIRED of their products. Wish I NEVER would have "upgraded" to Quicken 2008. I am not looking for a better software to replace both. I think Intuit will go the way of AMC, Eastern Airlines, etc...

Customer Review: Avoid Quicken
Summary: 1 Stars

I had to give up and stay with MS Money 2007. It was easy to set up Quicken as it downloaded data from financial institutions ( but each institution had a different time frame it supplied from 3 months to 18 months, making historical calculations with Quicken worse than useless) , and after doing it the first time, subsequent times, it claimed no new transactions from Bank of America (untrue), and totally bollixed up transactions from TIAA-CREF. Then its built in graphics were flat unacceptable and unuseable with the "My Accounts" window refusing to stay as top window, but with elements of underlying window being redrawn on top of it. Also it kept nagging me to use their pay services that I get for free through my banks. All-in-all I grade it a D-; and can not recommend it.

Customer Review: Fast and Perfect
Summary: 5 Stars

The software I purchased was delivered in a timely manner and was exactly as decribed. Good Work-Thanks

Customer Review: What has happened to Intuit?
Summary: 1 Stars

I am stunned by both the reviews and my own recent personal experience with Intuit.

I have used Quicken since its' inception.I am currently running Quicken2004 Deluxe. When it appeared on the market I started using Quickpay which morphed into QuickPayroll. And have been a subscriber all along.

I just recently decided to upgrade my machine to a Vista based platform. Vista has now been out for 1 1/2 years and I thought I'd be safe. I go to install QuickPayroll and discover it is not compatible with Vista. I try the Intuit callback service, no response.On their phone line I received conflicting information on comptibility issues with Quicken, Quickbooks,, QuickBooks Payroll and QuickPayroll.

Given the nature of the program, how can they NOT inform their user base of the compatatility issue. We're paying for the online update service this should have been a notice sent out to all users!!!!! THIS IS NO WAY TO OFFER A BUSINESS SUPPORT!!!!!!! AND MY EMPLOYEES WANT TO GET PAID, they're starting to get angry.

I may try to run the programs under Microsofts virtual machine or move them to my laptop which is still on XP. But, after reading all these reviews I don't think I want to DOWNgrade to this generation of Intuit products.

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