10 of 10 customers found the following review helpful:
 Intuit ruins everything, 2004-03-21
I was essentially forced to upgrade from Quicken 98 because of Y2K problems, and I wish I hadn't. Quicken 2004 is a horrible program, full of useless advertisements for everything from Quicken's credit cards to Quicken's online banking services. To make matters worse, you can't get rid of these annoying self-promotions. They are always there, whether you like it or not.Quicken has also demonstrated that they intend to keep moving customers in that direction. Quicken 2004 makes downloading bank account and financial information easy, but the functionality requires registration and appears to route the data through Quicken's servers. Quicken 2004 still allows you to download and import your account data using a data file, but the 2004 help file warns you that Quicken 2004 will be the last Quicken version to support that feature. I agree with the other reviews: At one time, Quicken was a great program. Intuit's blatant greed has caused it to change a great, versatile program to a bloated advertisement for its other services. I don't trust Intuit and would never trust them to handle my financial data properly, so I'll switch to MS Money or some other accounting software when I make my next upgrade.
5 of 5 customers found the following review helpful:
 Less for more, 2004-03-19
I too was forced to upgrade from Quicken '99 and did so begrudgingly. When I received my copy of Quicken Basic '04 I realized that much of the functionality (downloads of stock prices, etc.) of my old Quicken Basic was now only available in Quicken Deluxe for an additional $20. I returned my Quicken '04 and will continue to use my '99 version, even if I have to input daily stock prices by hand.
9 of 9 customers found the following review helpful:
Diminishing returns with Quicken program, 2004-03-16
As a user of Quicken since 1991, I am surprised and appalled at the poor quality of each year's subsequent version. One has no choice but to upgrade, since the earlier, more stable versions will no longer be supported. Important, simple features, such as right-click pasting in the checkbook, are now unavailable. Intuit is more interested in selling you mortgage services and providing car loans than the ongoing development of what was once the best financial software package on the market.
9 of 9 customers found the following review helpful:
Stick with Quicken 2001, 2004-03-15
I've been a Quicken user since 4.0, and this 2004 version is awful (I upgraded from 2001). The new program is hard to use. I wish there was a way to convert back to 2001. Also, technical support via Chat is awful; the end conclusion for every problem is that you have to reinstall the software.
3 of 6 customers found the following review helpful:
Waste of time, 2004-03-12
Been using quicken for a number of years. They have ruined a slick program... Buy MS MOney
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