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 - "Upgrading" from 2005 not much of an upgradeThis is a comparison of Quicken Premier 2005 vs. the home portion only of Quicken Home and Business 2008. I bought this product because I had been using Quicken 2005 and Intuit will "no longer be supporting" bank connectivity for that version later this spring. Overall, I have been very disappointed with the lack of difference between the two versions. New features I have found useful: 1) a _slightly_ better way to budget 2) a way to label an account a 529 I expected that the financial overview page would be improved, however,it seems about the same to me. In summary, it was definitely not worth the money to upgrade, except that by discontinuing the bank connectivity (the most important feature, I feel) we are forced to purchase the new version. Saying that, I have been using Quicken for almost a decade now. I love the product and am willing to shell out the extra cash, even though it irks me, in order to continue using it. Quicken is essential to my personal financial life and has been for many years. Liz http://www.DinnerBeat.com Rating:  - Quicken 2008 StinksDo not upgrade to 2008. The program is ugly, buggy and the screen flickers like crazy. This company just throws an upgrade out there every year to get additional revenue. Unfortunately, they don't test the programs. I got a notice that I had to upgrade from 2005, which had no problems at all to this "junk software". Shame on you Quicken.............I hope your software engineers are reading these reviews. Your program stinks............ Rating:  - Thanks for the warnings about 2008My Quicken 2005 is becoming more corrupted by the day. Then to make matters worse Quicken started notifying on EVERY transaction that on-line services would end in April. After my experiences with the 2005 product I was looking to jump to MS Money but, seems people aren't crazy about it either. Thanks for the warnings about 2008. Rating: - Don't waste your money on Quicken 2008DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT, YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! I have used Quicken for well over a decade, and it seems every new edition is worse than the previous. Q2008 is no exception. Recently, I was forced to update from Q2005 to Q2008 when Intuit informed me that they would no longer support my version. Frankly I didn't care if they stopped offering customer support, but the fact that they stopped your ability to connect with your bank online is ridiculous. I can't say that I was entirely happy with Q2005, and always felt it was a step backwards from the previous edition. However, I got by. After installing Q2008, it makes me wonder how Intuit stays in business. This is not only a step backward, but the quality of Q2008 is laughable. (Read some of the other reviews for specific details.) Although it doesn't seem to crash as often as Q2005 on Vista, the errors in calculations, graphing, reports, etc are disturbing. Intuit if you are reading this, you should be ashamed, and customers should have some recourse for Intuit basically stealing our money with faulty software. Rating: - Don't upgrade if you can help itI've been a Quicken user for almost 20 years, and have always loved the product. But this upgrade is, for me, a huge downgrade. I upgraded from Q2005 because Quicken has a policy of sunsetting online services after three years, effectively forcing you to upgrade. Rather than waiting until forced, I bought this in a discount bundle with TurboTax 2007. Big mistake. I bought it at the same time I bought a faster new PC. But the subjective performance is awful -- much, much worse. I'm sure I'm pushing it hard, with almost 20 years of financial data in my data file, but it shouldn't be this much slower than Q2005 (on a system that is so much faster.) It is absolutely painful to use. There are probably cool new features, but I haven't found them, mostly because doing anything is so painful. I'd downgrade (at least until absolutely forced to move back) if the file formats weren't incompatible.
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