For those of you who don't use Quicken, that thread title is sarcasm.
But they use brilliant marketing.
I got a Quicken CD in the snail mail today... just like the good ol' AOL days. I have plenty of coasters so I was about to toss it when I noticed the word "upgrade". So I read the fine print inside the package.
"Dear Valued Quicken Customer,
As of 30 April 2008, online services & technical support for Quicken 2005 products will no longer be available. Discontinued services include:
- Downloading financial data
- Online bill pay
- Downloading stock quotes
- Uploading portfolio info to Quicken.com
- Accessing the investing features on Quicken.com."
$40 to upgrade to Quicken Deluxe 2008.
It's not the money, although I have a lot fewer tickers to keep track of than I used to. It's the retraining hassle.
Maybe I could use this opportunity to break 15 years of data (over 100,000 transactions) into smaller chunks. That might at least fix some corruption problems that I've been afraid to touch. But I'll also be a free [-]abuse[/-] beta tester for software that's probably not even in stores yet.
If any of you Quicken users decide to go with 2008, let me know how you like it.
But they use brilliant marketing.
I got a Quicken CD in the snail mail today... just like the good ol' AOL days. I have plenty of coasters so I was about to toss it when I noticed the word "upgrade". So I read the fine print inside the package.
"Dear Valued Quicken Customer,
As of 30 April 2008, online services & technical support for Quicken 2005 products will no longer be available. Discontinued services include:
- Downloading financial data
- Online bill pay
- Downloading stock quotes
- Uploading portfolio info to Quicken.com
- Accessing the investing features on Quicken.com."
$40 to upgrade to Quicken Deluxe 2008.
It's not the money, although I have a lot fewer tickers to keep track of than I used to. It's the retraining hassle.
Maybe I could use this opportunity to break 15 years of data (over 100,000 transactions) into smaller chunks. That might at least fix some corruption problems that I've been afraid to touch. But I'll also be a free [-]abuse[/-] beta tester for software that's probably not even in stores yet.
If any of you Quicken users decide to go with 2008, let me know how you like it.