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Summary: Saddened
Review: I have been a user of Quicken and Intuit products since about 1988 starting with Quicken 1.0. A friend gave me a copy of 1.0 and I loved it so I bought it and have upgraded it almost every year since. My tax software was Personal Tax Edge by Parsons Technology (which at the time was better then TT BTW). Parsons was owned by Intuit who when they sold it off forced it to discontinue its tax software. Since I like Quicken it didn't bother me to switch to Intuits own Turbo-Tax even though is wasn't as good. I have been using it faithfully now for 5-6 years. However, this will be the last time I upgrade either Quicken or TT given the distrust and inconvenience they now provide for their loyal customers. Not only are they insisting on activation and dumping spy-ware on their LOYAL customers PC, but previous "free" state software was easily downloaded from within TT but now must be pay for it up front first then submit for a rebate. Hope your satisfied "Mr. Intuit" you've lost another one. By the way "Mr. Intuit" I didn't get my renewal notice either. I guess you were tired of me as customer. So be it.
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Summary: Quicken 2003 no longer has billboards
Review: I read that Quicken recently removed their ads from the product - I just bought the 2003 version and it's true,the ads are no longer there! They replaced them with financial tips and links to features - some of which I didn't even realize were in the product.
I upgrade almost every year and this is a welcome change - those ads were a little distracting.
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Summary: Even my computer phobic Dad can use it.
Review: If my dad who is computer phobic can download his bank account files in seconds, generate reports, and upload to Turbo Tax I can't imagine anyone having trouble using this product. I use it as well (but I also have a degree in finance and work as a financial systems analyst so my dad is a better benchmark of a typical user)and once you set up your accounts (which it walks you through) it takes less than 15 seconds a month to import all of my financial data from my bank and my broker and at the end of the year I simply export it into my tax software. TADA hours and hours saved.The user interface is intiutive and easy to use and yet there is tremendous depth to this product that you will enjoy. It is seemlessly integrated with the web. There are tons of reports that include everything from cash flow statements, investment performance, to Schedule A and D's, (itemized deductions and capital gains) that you can run at any point in the year. In the deluxe version you can even track project costs, A/P, A/R and even payroll if you run a small consulting business. I imagine that the people who have trouble switching from money to Quicken should talk to Microsoft about why they purposely make it difficult for almost any Microsoft product to work with their competition. to gain market share. Quicken is a far superior product and their market share holds up year after year and MSFT basically has to give money away. Once you use it you will wonder how you ever did your finances without it.
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Summary: Not a usable upgrade
Review: Upon installation, Quicken 2003 converts your old data to its new format. This worked fine for all my accounts except checking. Clicking on the checking account to view the register produced an error that made me close and reenter Quicken. It did it each time: there was no way to make it work. I have uninstalled and reinstalled about 5 times to no avail. I refuse to pay for tech support for a product that does not work, and their chat support never responds. I went back to the 2002 version. Even starting over with the checking account and reentering each transaction for a year produced the same results. This product does not work.
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Summary: WOW...Glad I didn't buy it!
Review: WOW! I've used Quicken for many years and really like it. I was just about set to download 2003 Deluxe when I decided to look at the reviews and was STUNNED! I have Quicken 2000...it's working fine and meets my needs...and I see NO reason to update anything until Intuit addresses what appears to be many, many unacceptable bugs and "features." Thank God I found these reviews before I wasted my money and made things worse! Thanks to all of the reviewers!
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Summary: Please Do Not Upgrade!
Review: They say that part of maturity is being able to admit mistakes. I was using Quicken 2000, and because of all of the great promises on the packaging I purchased Quicken 2003. I made a huge mistake. The upgrade does little that Quicken 2000 didn't already do, and 2003 is full of bugs and glitches. It crashes, freezes, and if it doesn't do that, then bizarre error messages pop up. Quicken customer service is terrible (when it isn't non-exisistent). Many of the on-line features either do not work or are completely useless. Worst of all, their are ads all over the place, and, of course, there is no way to remove them. Please -- save your time, money, and aggravation, and avoid this product at all costs!
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Summary: Too Much Fluff
Review: Intuit has added some bells and whistles in the 2003 version but unless you are "into" financial planning and you need to upgrade from an older version, don't waste your money. The older versions if you have one are sufficient to track your finances and they do it very well. If you don't have a previous version, get 2003 and get tracking.
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Summary: Not as good as the 2002 version.
Review: I bought the 2003 version and was appalled by all the changes just so they could call it a update. It means you have to learn the program over again. They also denied my rebate because I didn't jump through the hoops just right. By the time I found out about not getting the rebate, it was too late to return it. I've used Quicken from version 4 for DOS, but will not buy again unless they change their greedy ways. So get a 2002 version instead, it's cheaper and better. I saved the quicken.ini file in the Windows directory using notepad, calling it quicken.txt. If I have to reinstall Quicken, I copy the paragraph under [Registration]from the original file and paste it in the new ini file. This allows full use without having to try to register it again.
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Summary: Not worth the money
Review: I was going to transfer from an EOM version of Money 99 to Quicken 2003. There were too many problems switching, plus you CAN'T TURN OFF THE ADS! I returned this item and got Money 2003, which is great, and YOU CAN TURN OFF THE ADS!
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Summary: Software has bugs and support from Intuit is bad
Review: Currency conversion has been a problem in Quicken since this feature was introduced a number of years ago; even this new version does not address the issues fully. What makes matters worse is that upon enquiry through their pay-technical-support line, Intuit has promised free patches to fix these problems many times - however, never delivered on their promises. I have a few months ago complained about these issues to Intuit and was promised a refund upon putting my problems in writing. Like for the software patches, I am still waiting ...
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