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From: Gordon on 15 Jan 2010 07:49 OnLine Quicken in a few weeks, Software 5 years max. I expect Quicken 2011 for Windows to be the last version - unless they choose to skip 2011 and make a 2012 version. I doubt there will be any new Mac versions. http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2010/tc2010018_451437.htm - Email will be: 2Cybers at gmail-dot-com Gordon Potter Atlanta, GA USA
From: Andrew on 15 Jan 2010 08:16 Gordon Potter wrote: > OnLine Quicken in a few weeks, Software 5 years max. > > I expect Quicken 2011 for Windows to be the last version - unless they > choose to skip 2011 and make a 2012 version. > > I doubt there will be any new Mac versions. > > http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2010/tc2010018_451437.htm > > - > Email will be: > 2Cybers at gmail-dot-com > > Gordon Potter > Atlanta, GA > USA I for one will be writing a letter to Intuit this weekend telling them of my absolute distaste (and more importantly, I won't buy into it) for their plans to sunset the desktop version of Q. I will not put my data that I currently have on my PC on the web due to access potential (hell, they can't get their quotes downloads right much of the time, you expect them to have your data always available when you need it), as well as (of course) privacy issues. It will be tough, but I'd rather go back to a spreadsheet system if I had to. -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Regards - - Andrew
From: Keith Snyder on 15 Jan 2010 08:35 "Andrew" <andrew(a)jkl.com> wrote in message news:4b506ab6$0$4979$607ed4bc(a)cv.net... > Gordon Potter wrote: >> OnLine Quicken in a few weeks, Software 5 years max. >> >> I expect Quicken 2011 for Windows to be the last version - unless they >> choose to skip 2011 and make a 2012 version. >> >> I doubt there will be any new Mac versions. >> >> http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2010/tc2010018_451437.htm >> >> - >> Email will be: >> 2Cybers at gmail-dot-com >> >> Gordon Potter >> Atlanta, GA >> USA > > I for one will be writing a letter to Intuit this weekend telling them of > my absolute distaste (and more importantly, I won't buy into it) for their > plans to sunset the desktop version of Q. I will not put my data that I > currently have on my PC on the web due to access potential (hell, they > can't get their quotes downloads right much of the time, you expect them > to have your data always available when you need it), as well as (of > course) privacy issues. > > It will be tough, but I'd rather go back to a spreadsheet system if I had > to. > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------- > Regards - > > - Andrew > Check out GnuCash for Windows. It has a steep learning curve, but it does work.
From: R. C. White on 15 Jan 2010 09:40 Hi, Gordon. Thanks for that link! Not only did I learn some things from Patzer's interview in the first two segments, but I enjoyed the 3rd segment on Adm. Grace Hopper, too. I'm one of the folks in the demographic that Patzer is discussing (condescendingly and disparagingly?), of course, and I share the reluctance of many (most?) Quicken users to have my financial data at the FAR end of my Ethernet cable rather than here in my converted bedroom. But my tendency is to wait and watch developments before making my decision. Perhaps before the end of the 5-or-so-year transition phase-out of Quicken desktop there will be something even more suitable - for me - than what I could choose from today. So, I'll keep using Quicken for now and keep watching for the next stepping-stone, whether a newer Quicken or Mint or a step in another direction. In any case, it's better to be able to see it coming than to be blindsided in a few years. RC -- R. C. White, CPA San Marcos, TX (Retired. No longer licensed to practice public accounting.) rc(a)grandecom.net Microsoft Windows MVP (Using Quicken Deluxe 2010 and Windows Live Mail in Win7 x64) "Gordon Potter" wrote in message news:uro0l5pq4aaqnt8v4dq5li301898hnfart(a)4ax.com... > OnLine Quicken in a few weeks, Software 5 years max. > > I expect Quicken 2011 for Windows to be the last version - unless they > choose to skip 2011 and make a 2012 version. > > I doubt there will be any new Mac versions. > > http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2010/tc2010018_451437.htm > > - > Email will be: > 2Cybers at gmail-dot-com > > Gordon Potter > Atlanta, GA > USA
From: JimH on 15 Jan 2010 10:38
R. C. White wrote: > Hi, Gordon. > > Thanks for that link! > > Not only did I learn some things from Patzer's interview in the first > two segments, but I enjoyed the 3rd segment on Adm. Grace Hopper, too. > > I'm one of the folks in the demographic that Patzer is discussing > (condescendingly and disparagingly?), of course, and I share the > reluctance of many (most?) Quicken users to have my financial data at > the FAR end of my Ethernet cable rather than here in my converted > bedroom. But my tendency is to wait and watch developments before > making my decision. Perhaps before the end of the 5-or-so-year > transition phase-out of Quicken desktop there will be something even > more suitable - for me - than what I could choose from today. So, I'll > keep using Quicken for now and keep watching for the next > stepping-stone, whether a newer Quicken or Mint or a step in another > direction. > > In any case, it's better to be able to see it coming than to be > blindsided in a few years. > > RC The article also says that Quicken has 10 to 12 million customers who generate $100 million in revenue. While MINT attracts younger users who get it for free. Heck, make Quicken free, and I'll bet it will attract more customers also. Of course, the revenue might take a hit. I like this part of the article.... During the TV interview, Patzer got in a dig at Quicken, whose cumbersome operation he has said helped inspire him to create Mint. Quicken appealed to an "anal-retentive-type personality who wanted to make sure everything was penny perfect," he said. I wonder if he is the anal retentive type, or if it would be OK for me to be off a few pennies when I buy the next version of Quicken. $59.99.... Sure, here is the $.99. Write off the rest as less than penny perfect. We wouldn't want to be anal retentive about the price. What a jerk! Well, I'll keep buying Quicken as long as it is available in the current form. But, I sure won't be buying any Intuit stock. -- Jim |