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Date Posted: Tuesday November 18, 2003 01:21:14 PM
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New book tells the inside story of the development and innovative marketing of Intuit's automated personal finance software. Author Kathy Schroeder explains it all.

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steinmh
Date Posted: Tuesday November 18, 2003 06:19:03 PM
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It will be very interesting to read this book. My own observation is that Quicken doesn't really change that much. Obvious bugs in Quicken are acknowledged by the support people, but not fixed in the next release (and after that). For example on a two-monitor system, the input-help popups always come up on monitor 1, even if Quicken runs on monitor 2. This tells me that Quicken, at the core, is still the 16-bit VB program it was 200 years ago. Maybe they made a quantum leap after Money came out but since then they are just adding on comparatively small features. This tells me that the program is now so complicated that no one understands it any more and changes to the core are not done any more.


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steinmh
Date Posted: Monday November 24, 2003 05:16:24 PM
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One more observation from my wife, the 5+ year Quicken user: we had a problem with Quicken, and support identified it as a bug. The bug was fixed in a later release. We still had to pay $100+ for the support, and besides that wait on the line for the usual eternity.

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