ventip's Review of Quicken XG
3rd Nov 2004
Overall Rating
- Value for money
Good functionality
Bad Points
Product licence prevents it working for more than 1 year
General Comments
I bought the Quicken XG after having used the Quicken range for 12 years and have a huge amount of financial information tied up in the formats quicken use (eg. QIF files). I have always found it to be an excellent product. However the XG version and 2004 version are backward steps. I would avoid them like the plague.
Intuit have decided to implement a licence system that effectively means you have to pay every year for functionality that you have already bought and installed. Note, I am not talking about paying for online services provided by intuit themselves (such as share price information) but other functions such as being able to impport QIF files (eg. from your handheld PDA or from another computer's version of Quicken or from previous versions of quicken). You will not be able to download or generate electronic financial files from your Bank without paying Intuit every year for it (even though Intuit are not part of the process of downloading or importing this information). I think they have a cheek asking to be paid for services they do not provide and for program functions that they have not changed for several versions.
All the above used to work fine in Quicken 2002. Quicken XG and 2004 are backward steps. I for one have been given a monetry insentive by Intuit to try Microsoft Money instead.
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