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| Quicken 2008 Home & Business [OLD VERSION] | ![Quicken 2008 Home & Business [OLD VERSION]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51UQj98rJXL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | From: Intuit
Category: Software
List Price: $99.95
Buy New: $44.09
You Save: $55.86 (56%)
New (8) Used (2) from $35.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  59 reviews
Sales Rank: 1132
Format: Cd-rom
Platform: Windows Xp
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Home & Business
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0.1 x 0.1
MPN: 404146
UPC: 028287017214
EAN: 0028287017337
ASIN: B000U0AEE2
Release Date: September 9, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Online Banking vs Quicken and banking fees November 19, 2007
11 out of 14 found this review helpful
This is more a comment about Quicken online services than that to review this version of Quicken. I "Love" Quicken overall features and capabilities. I have been using it as long as I can remember. It was a DOS program when I started. :)
Anyway, I'm concerned that the feature that allows Quicken to download transactions posted to checking, credit card and other accounts is being undermined by "some" banks.
They banks are adding on a fee for this capability. I've inquired with a couple of them and they say that it adds to their costs to provide this service and that using the online banking at their website is free.
I view it as another means of taking more of my hard earned money (nickel and dimeing) to enhance their bottom line. I hope this is not a trend that spreads. Fow now, I can live without the few banks that are charging fees for this.
 Essential November 14, 2007
16 out of 31 found this review helpful
Quicken Home & Business 2008 is one of my most essential and used software applications. It manages my multiple saving, checking, investment, and trading accounts for me and, so far, I have had no issues with it. As a precaution, I keep the Quicken data files under a version control system on another hard drive that I periodically backup, encrypt, and dump to DVDs for secure local fire-safe and remote offsite storage along with other data for disaster recovery purposes. Though Quicken has the ability to manage scanned data, I prefer a separate package for that and for my encryption needs as well. This allows for a more general data management solution, for me anyway.
There is a lot to like about Quicken, such as its ability to define categories and local accounts. This is handy when you decide to track expenses pertinent to, say, a relocation or vacation. The tool also offers you a subsequent forecast as to where you might be come tax time. Then there is Quicken's immensely useful and easy to setup, manage, and use online account transaction reconciliation features. I do not use its online bill-pay feature, preferring instead to create Internet browser icons to respective accounts payable sites. This avoids single-point-of-failure scenarios that would arise if any one of my packages or computers handled all financial operations.
Another nicety is Quicken's ability to `skip' bills. This allows you to set estimates of future expenses such as weekly auto fuel and dining out, and observe a very accurate end-of-month balance for as far ahead as you care to view. This is especially helpful when managing a monthly or quarterly income, where its especially important to know where you stand between pay periods. Properly managed, this software can truly become a crystal ball for your financial present and future.
I spend about ten minutes a day with Quicken, and in return I know, to the penny, exactly where I stand on multiple accounts. The software is intuitive enough that I personally never bothered reading any books or manuals about it. Just use it, I would suggest, and keep backing up to handle any newbie goofs.
For me personally, Quicken is just a component of a larger paperless home data-management picture including version control, cryptography, backups, secure storage, UPS, cascaded firewalls, intrusion detection, etc.
In this regard, so far, it has proven to be a five star component indeed.
 Even worse than 2007 November 11, 2007
12 out of 14 found this review helpful
For some reason, I had no problems with Quicken 2006. I upgraded to Quicken 2007 and have problems with multiple transactions that I can't "match", basic arithmetic errors (can't calculate asset % in my 401k), and random date changes that cause problems.
I hoped that 2008 would be a good upgrade to fix the problems. I was wrong. All the old problems are there, and downloads from my financial institutions worked even less than before. As a result, I took advantage of the 60 day money back guarantee and got my money back. It's a shame that this software has degraded this far. I know one thing: I'll be trying out Money 2008. :)
Buyer Beware! October 23, 2007
29 out of 31 found this review helpful
1) data damaged during update (transactions lost)
2) online account login information lost (must reenter, reactivate)
3) any other program running and Quicken freezes, CPU utilization jumps to 100% and stays there. Even Ctrl-Alt-Delete won't run. Power off only solution.
This the worst Quicken update I've ever encountered - been a user since early DOS days. This release is entirely unusable. I'm rolling back to Quicken 2007.
Quicken 2008 October 17, 2007
7 out of 15 found this review helpful
Simpler & easier to understand than years past, although some items are not well explained. I would recommend taking a few hours intially to learn the basics, and go from there.
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