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| Quicken 2008 Premier [OLD VERSION] | ![Quicken 2008 Premier [OLD VERSION]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51H%2BaCPNd8L._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | From: Intuit
Category: Software
List Price: $89.85
Buy New: $33.99
You Save: $55.86 (62%)
New (13) Used (1) from $33.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  71 reviews
Sales Rank: 725
Format: Cd-rom
Platform: Windows Xp
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Premier
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5.3 x 1.4
MPN: 403615
UPC: 028287017344
EAN: 0028287017344
ASIN: B000U0CBVG
Release Date: September 9, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 I won't upgrade September 28, 2007
57 out of 58 found this review helpful
I was hoping that Intuit/Quicken would finally work out the bugs that continue to frustrate long-time Quicken(even Premier)users. Try printing out a report and regardless of the print setup you get microprint. This problem surfaced and was reported repeatededly in the 2006 "upgrade", which lead to an incredibly complex work-around solution offered by the Intuit "experts". This has persisted in the 2007 version and I presume from the early reviews that 2008 is going to (with all due respect to Frank Sinatra) be another "very bad year" for Quicken. I'm glad to see that someone has been able to migrate to MS Money without a problem and hope to do the same. As years of accumulated "QFX" financial records I hope that I'm as lucky as he was.
I just received a "courtesy" upgrade disc and was amazed that they are offering an update for my Premier version for "just" $79.99 ($5.00 more than Amazon). My guess is if they're mailing them out they must have realized that their loyal customer base was mysteriously disappearing...color me gone, too.
jerryfitQuicken 2008 Premier
Do not buy until they fix many bugs September 17, 2007
145 out of 147 found this review helpful
If you are a satisfied Quicken 2006 or earlier user, do not upgrade. Quicken 2007 and 2008 are very buggy and Intuit seems incapable of rapidly making fixes. For me the bugs in the Calendar, Tax Planner, and Online updates are so aggravating because they should so easy to have found in testing. Personally, I wish Intuit and Microsoft would stop this silly "every year" versioning and release new versions only when they have been properly tested, not when some artificial marketting deadline is reached.
If you're considering jumping into Quicken September 14, 2007
189 out of 192 found this review helpful
You should ask yourself - "how can a piece of software be capable of generating so much hostility from its user base?" If you can't think up a good answer, go ahead and install Quicken, and you'll have an answer before long.
Some of my favorite quirks from Quicken 2006 & 2007 that I'm glad to see survived the upgrade to Quicken 2008:
Basic arithmetic errors: sometimes, if you edit transactions in the register, every subsequent transaction will get confused about the running total (e.g., change a $10 debit to a $20 debit, and instead of changing the running total by $10, watch in delight and amazement as the running total leaps by thousands, literally thousands, of dollars).
Basic reporting errors: go ahead and open the category list, and click the (very unintuitive) button to generate a report for the category _DivInc. If, like me, you have several years of investment transactions, you're sure to have dividend income, but Quicken will tell you "no transactions for this category." Funny, if you type _DivInc into the global search window, it will bring up all those transactions the report couldn't locate.
File corruption: sometimes, I like to imagine Quicken's routines as a bunch of angry little gnomes running around the traces of my processor and through the registers of my memory. This is because, every so often, the gnomes demand a sacrifice, and offer up burnt offerings of your data integrity to their terrible god of woe. I can't otherwise imagine how downloading QFX data from Hewitt Associates confused Quicken so - in the online center, it shows "number of outstanding transactions: -65,536" Yep, negative 2 to the 16th power of transactions outstanding.
Probably the worst part about Quicken, however, is trying to free your data. If you've got any kind of complicated financial picture (i.e, if you're over 25 years old), you won't be able to free yourself from Quicken's grasp, since the only way to get data out of the program is in QIF format, one measly account at a time. Funny, they don't support _importing_ QIFs, claiming, and I quote, "QIF technology is over 10 years old and was designed for technical support purposes . . . QIF Data Import requires many steps to download, is a poor customer experience and can lead to duplicate transactions and errors." That old technology is good enough for you should you dare to _export_ data from Quicken, however. They're going to make darn sure that you have a "poor customer experience" and suffer from "duplicate transactions and errors" if you try to take your data anywhere else.
 My humbel opinion September 14, 2007
13 out of 45 found this review helpful
I am not an expert when it comes to knowing very much about a computer, but the two previous review comments were so negative I thought I should
comment. I just received my quicken today. It took about 10-15 minutes to install. So far, it is working very well and I have had no problems with any part of this program.
Save your money September 13, 2007
41 out of 62 found this review helpful
This program stinks! I don't need to go into detail, becuase the review above says it all. After 5 yrs with Quicken, I am going to take MS up on the free 60 day offer to try Money. Either way, I am never buying a Quicken product again.
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