21 of 22 customers found the following review helpful:
 Do Not Upgrade, 2003-09-11
I had been using Quicken 2000 which worked fine. The interface is decent and it did everything I wanted. I was suckered into 2004 by a good deal and some rebates. Worst mistake I made. The interface on 2004 (is bad. Quicken has decided, arbitrarily, to reduce the input screen, put banner-type ads on the bottom, and in general, not allow you to determine the look or functionality of the program. Plus, in importing my data from 2000, I found several errors that I had to manually fix. Who knows what else is lurking in there. My advice, don't upgrade. Intuit needs to take a different approach to how their program presents itself and what you're able to do with it. I hate this program and can't wait to dump it.
26 of 28 customers found the following review helpful:
 Why can't I do simple things?!, 2003-08-23
Terrible application and I wish I was still running 1999 Quicken. This program FORCES you to upload your data to quicken.com and I resent this. If you turn off the nearly hidden options so it does not send your financial data to quicken.com, then everytime you download stock quotes, it reports an error indicating you have not yet uploaded your data to quicken.com.
42 of 44 customers found the following review helpful:
Run, don't walk, AWAY from this program..., 2003-08-16
I have been a loyal Quicken 99 Deluxe user for five years. In the past, I have tried the 2000 and 2002 versions but have always returned to '99 for various reasons. After trying 2004 Premier, I am throwing in the towel on Intuit and going elsewhere. In the first two minutes of operation, there were several apparent problems. Reports would only print if you manually printed each individual page seperately. The program failed several times, abruptly shutting down for no reason. I would enter my entire portfolio into the setup account function only to see all the work disappear when I hit "done" (I guess the software takes "done" literally). The import/export function never worked properly, often omitting portions of transactions. To add injury to insult, there is no email support and phone support is $$$$/minute (a free chat is available but, for some reason, is closed on Thursday and Fridays). Nothing like having to pay to have Intuit correct its own problems. Intuit seems to have abondoned the concept of creating decent products. After the TurboTax disaster of last year, one would have thought they would have learned. Take it from me, they didn't - run away from this software as fast as you can.
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