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Summary: Disappointing is an overstatement
Review: Do yourself a favor and save money by not buying this version of Quicken. Buy an older version instead if you are a loyal Quicken user. I have been upgrading my Quicken to newer versions every time there is a new release to Quicken since 1995. This is the first time that I truly can say I HATE IT. It put transactions into wrong accounts. I couldn't move the transactions to correct them. To say nothing of the awkward way to manually enter stock transactions. Heaven help you if you aren't doing an automatic download. After 2 months I had had enough and switched back to my older version of Quicken. I had to reload the transactions from those two months but it was worth it to avoid the continuing hassles. Granted my tax estimater is off but that is really the only drawback. And I won't even bother to address the spyware issues since everyone else reviewing that has gone on to great length about it. Buy this version at your own risk.
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Summary: Shallow bug!! (User Interface)
Review: Funny things happen with the User Interface when you close one window. I am now wondering what kind of testing is Intuit performing? Are there any types of Quality Assurance test? Is there a usablility test? If you want to try this software download it from Kaza!!! Not worth buying it. Sorry.
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Summary: Absolutely do not buy this product
Review: This product is pretty much despised by everyone who buys it -- just check all the other sites on the web for more scornful reviews. Intuit failed to do even basic tests for bugs.Biggest problem for me is that the "exclude internal transfers" setting does not work when you generate a report. So when you try to view your budget report, it's full of garbage lines that shouldn't be shown. Doesn't make it easy to manage your finances. Several months ago, Intuit told me that this is a known bug. But months go by, and they have no interest in fixing it.
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Summary: Don't believe the others
Review: The makers of Quicken software may be playing dirty by MAKING their users, who download information from their banks, upgrade to Quicken 2004, but the product is good and up to the quality of past versions. I upgraded from Quicken 2001 with no difficulties. The first look is quite foreign, but by doing usual fuctions, I see ways to adjust things to my old way of doing things. Already, (less than 24hrs)I'm liking some of the new features. By bad-mouthing a good product, people who have to upgrade, are hesitant to buy. I didn't like being forced to upgrade, but perhaps it was necessary because of internet or banking upgrades. Sometimes change is good.
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Summary: Better not need customer service!!!!
Review: Intuit continues to produce complicated and non-user-friendly software. DO NOT PURCHASE THIS junk if you have any of the following: An Employee Stock Purchase Program/Plan, a 401K, any options, the desire to download investment transactions, the naive belief you can get free customer service from Intuit. The program requires you enter share purchases to the millionth decimal (no exageration!). If you don't, watch out. You're in for a major headache. The web-based "help" is utterly useless for ANY slightly complicated matter (to be fair, it did answer one of my questions). You want to speak to a person? Good Luck! The web-based technical support chat has never been available, even during their published hours. And, if that's not enough, the chat-line helpers can't assist you with investment questions. Can you believe that? Quicken is supposed to help you track personal investments, and their customer service can't even help you sort out those questions? What a sham! You can talk with someone, but it will cost you $1.95/minute. I think I'll just track my finances on my own Excel spreadsheet. It will be MUCH simpler for me in the long run.
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Summary: It works just fine
Review: I am a long-time Quicken 98 user. The old one worked just fine, but the downloads will no longer be supported. After 5 years, that's OK. So, despite all the bad reviews, I figured I would back up all my data and try out Quicken 2004 Deluxe. Lots of new features I don't really care about, so I just ignore most of them. It has a new interface, it is a bit of a pain, but it works just fine. I've now used it fairly extensively without any major problems - just a few things I don't much care for. The only things that scare me about this new version is that it wants to connect online to all kinds of servers, including quicken.com and every institution. A little thinking about privacy and security makes this a bit worrysome.
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Summary: Quicken 2004, save your money
Review: Each new version of Quicken seems to arrive with a screen more cluttered than the last. This is the last version that I will be buying. I updated to Quicken 2004 hoping that it would finally become easier to use but it definitely is not. The screen is a cobbled up maze that is very difficult to follow and trying to do file operations is next to impossible. Some operations that I need to perform will have to wait because their "help" appears to have been written by someone from another planet. The instructions they give just do not work and in many cases, are wrong. I would love to go back to Quicken 2000 or Quicken 2001 but they fix it so the data cannot be read by their older versions. I am going to try an older version Microsoft Money soon if I can find one and if it will convert Quicken 2004 data.
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Summary: Disappointing....
Review: I can't believe I'm thinking of moving to a Microsoft product (Money). But this version has given me fits, problems with installation, converting, lack of customization, and poor, costly, and slow customer service to deal with these problems. PLUS backing up files are more complicated, and it leaves a little "gift" file on my desktop, something which Intuit says its aware of but can't do anything about right now. Capital Gains are impossible to track...
...so next move... MS MONEY!
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Summary: long time quicken user very disappointed
Review: as a quicken user since the early 90's i was excited to pick-up 2004 deluxe. i was disappointed with this version to say the least. it converted much of my data incorrectly, the investment register was modified by someone who appeared to have never used it to actually track & update investments, the interface was clunky, etc. it's unbelievable that a company who used to be passionate about utilizing user feedback on their products could release such a product. i ended up taking my data backup and re-installing the 02 version. 04 is terrible.
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Summary: So Far, So Good.
Review: OK, so...I was petrified by all the bad reviews, but I really had no choice but to upgrade from 2000 to 2004. My bank does not support MS Money and changing to a new bank was not something I wanted to do. So, I purchased the Quicken 2004 DELUXE CD-ROM and so far it works fine. HERE IS WHAT EVERYONE IS MISSING: If you are upgrading from Q2000, you need to let the Q2004 installer uninstall the old version during the install of the new one. DON'T uninstall it yourself. I did this and it worked fine. So, Step 1: Back up your old Quicken Files. Step 2: Repeat Step 1. Step 3: Insert Q2004 CD and let it do the rest. Everything was upgraded successfully and so far, so good. (NOTE: I did an experiment on a different machine that had never seen a Quicken install. I installed Q2004 Deluxe and tried to convert and import my Q2000 data files : It bombed.)
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