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| Quicken 2008 Deluxe [OLD VERSION] | ![Quicken 2008 Deluxe [OLD VERSION]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41rozdCQ-FL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | From: Intuit
Category: Software
List Price: $59.95
Buy New: $40.00
You Save: $19.95 (33%)
New (5) from $40.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  147 reviews
Sales Rank: 361
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Xp, Windows 2000
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Deluxe
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.3 x 1.3
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
MPN: N30110
UPC: 028287016743
EAN: 0028287016743
ASIN: B000U0I11A
Release Date: September 9, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Seems to load easily and works like my Quicken 2004. October 1, 2007
14 out of 16 found this review helpful
Like others, I was peeved that INTUIT stopped supporting Quicken 2004 in early 2007, planned obsolescence, etc., but I did the necessary go-arounds to continue using it with my banks' checking and savings accounts and credit card accounts until Quicken 2008 finally showed up in the USA. Presumably Q-08 will be good for 3 full years beyond 2007, 2008-2010. Anyhow, I was surprised that I was able to download and start using Q-08 within about 50 minutes, rather than the three or more hours it had taken me to go from Q-2001 to Q-2004. The whole process was fairly seemless for me, too, but note that I do not use it for taxes or investments. I recommend Quicken 2008 for the above reasons, and with respect to the above types of accounts.
 Don't use if a MS Money customer -- No Converter! September 30, 2007
35 out of 39 found this review helpful
Don't buy this product if attempting to convert from MS Money. According to Quicken Support answer 5901, the company has not released a working converter that will convert MS Money files to Quicken 2008. The answers I get from Quicken vary, some indicate I should use an 8 year old manual conversion process - which doesn't work well if you have investments. Others point me to a different answer which contains a process which doesn't work either.
In no case will the company tell me when the converter will be released, nor will they refund my money under their 60 day guarantee, because I can't find my receipt from my local big box warehouse.
Qucken S/W September 29, 2007
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I have been a quicken user since 1990, the dos days. The program is very good once you get the knowledge of its useage.
I have one big gripe about it? As the program progresses in the years it seems that your past data is no longer in use. The new basic program cannot back it up, because it is out of dated. You send messages to there help team they never answer you. So that tells you all the disks you used to B/U your data in the past you cannot use. The only way I found that you must always B/U all your data every time it changes, no matter how far back you go.
Anyway I found quicken very good in tracking your finaces. I would say it is worth buying the S/W, but I would think the Intuit company look into there help team so they can evaluate the problem I discussed.
Arnie Negrin CA
Quicken 2008 Home & Business won't install September 24, 2007
17 out of 19 found this review helpful
I have used Quicken for 10 years. This latest version will not install. I have read all the user forums on quicken.com for all the possible fixes, and none work, including QcleanUI.exe and Windows Installer Clean Up Utility.
The worst part is that to install 2008, you have to uninstall 2007. Now, I can't even re-install 2007!
I am up to 8 hours already dealing with this totally bad software. In a nutshell, don't buy Quicken 2008.
If you're considering jumping into Quicken September 14, 2007
298 out of 359 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.
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