Quicken For Mac 2008
I have Quicken Basic 2007 installed on 2 computers and it's been working fine but I was wondering should I consider upgrading to a 2008 or 2009 version or stay with what I have since everything is.
After numerous false starts over several years, Intuit plans to announce the release of on Thursday. The new product offers a promising new interface, but faces a mass of built-up anger from users who feel betrayed by the company’s mismanagement of the product. Two years of promises It’s been nearly four years since the most recent release of Quicken for the Mac, ( ), released in mid-2006. After that, more than a year went by with rumors escalating that. In early 2008, the company, and promised a new product called Quicken Financial Life for Mac in fall of 2008. That date, and a new date was promised — summer 2009. We got a in early 2009, but like a mirage in the desert, the product kept fading into the distance.
In July 2009 the company, to 2010, with an explanation that it was going “back to the drawing board” with the product. Perhaps that confusion and intransigence on Intuit’s part was a sign of a larger problem with the management of the company’s software products. It seems the most likely explanation for Intuit and immediately installing its founder and CEO, Aaron Patzer, as the new VP and general manager of Intuit’s personal finance group. (Buying a competitor and making its head your new leader—talk about an admission that your own company has lost its way.) With Patzer in charge, Intuit’s personal-finance group has shown some signs of a change in direction., the company announced in November, to be replaced by Mint.com. Onenote for mac vs onenote for windows. Now here comes the $70, a new product marching proudly into the maw of a user base that’s ready to tear the product, and Intuit, into tiny little pieces.
What it’s got, what it hasn’t Quicken Essentials is a new app, re-written entirely using Apple’s development environment, using native interface elements that make the app feel like a lost cousin of iWork. 
It’s got access to 8,000 financial institutions—more than twice as many as the previous version—and Intuit says that number will jump to 16,000 “within the next few months.” The program is replete with colorful graphs, easy-to-use filters, and familiar registers for listing past transactions and viewing upcoming transactions as well. There’s a budget bar graph that lets you set realistic budgets based on past expenditures and then track your monthly spending pace. Transactions are automatically categorized with improved accuracy.
And the program imports data files from a host of other financial packages, including Microsoft Money, Quicken for Windows, and Quicken for Mac. Quicken Essentials' Explorer lets you surf through a pie chart to view your various expenses.
That all sounds good enough. And for some users, that level of functionality will be enough.
But when I talked to Intuit’s Patzer last week, he acknowledged the anger some users feel about the product’s holes—features that Quicken for Mac 2007 offered nearly four years ago that are not present in the current product. “The product doesn’t have the ability to pay bills through Quicken,” Patzer admitted, but said that the company’s research indicated that only six percent of its users took advantage of that feature. “And on the investment side, you have all your stocks there, but it’s just a snapshot it doesn’t do stock-lot accounting,” he said.
The program also doesn’t export to Intuit’s TurboTax product. Patzer appeared to fully understand the criticism that’s been leveled against Quicken Essentials (which, to rub salt in the wound, costs $10 more than the more full-featured Quicken Deluxe for Windows), but explained that as the newly installed executive in charge of Quicken, he needed to decide whether to release a limited product now or release nothing until 2011. “When I came in, I looked at the Mac product and said, ‘Holy crap, we haven’t put one of these out in three years,’” Patzer said. “It’s called 'Mac Essentials' because it’s got the essential features used by 80 percent of the users we’ve surveyed and talked to.