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Imserba Webstore - Quicken Home & Business 2010
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List Price: $99.95
Our Price: $69.99
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Manufacturer: Intuit
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Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Intuit
EAN: 0028287025127
Feature: Quicken Home & Business 2010 easily organizes your personal and business finances
Format: CD-ROM
Label: Intuit
Manufacturer: Intuit
Model: 409944
Platform: Windows Vista
Publisher: Intuit
Release Date: 2009-10-10
Studio: Intuit
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Features
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Quicken Home & Business 2010 easily organizes your personal and business finances
Organizes your finances and makes portfolio management easier by bringing your accounts together in one place
Shows you where your money is going by automatically categorizing your personal and home business expenses
Lets you view your profit and loss at a glance, so you always know how your home based business is doing
Helps you choose the right investments to reach your goals and identifies ways to minimize taxes on your investments
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Editorial Reviews:
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Quicken Home & Business is software for easily managing and organizing your personal and home-based business finances, all in one place.
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Does Not Support QIF file transfer
Comment: I bought this product as I needed to convert from Microsoft Money. While a lot about it is different, it did not take long to transfer my file from Money to Quicken nor learn how to operate the new software. However, it does not support QIF file data transfer from financial institutions. It may be logical to not support relatively archaeic file system, but two of my banks where I do lots of transactions do not allow for any other format, so short of entering transactions manually I have no use of Quicken. Very disappointed!!! Will have to stick around with Microsoft Money till 2011. I will see then if other options become available or if perhaps my banks upgrade thier reporting methods. IOf anyone knows how to run around this, please let me know
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Summary: A Poor Replacement for MS Money for Budgeting
Comment: I purchased this product because I wanted a replacement for MS Money. I had successfully used Money Deluxe for five years for budgeting, tracking spending in tax categories, reporting on my investments, and gauging my ability to retire with the retirement planner. Since I had recently started a business, I was looking forward to using Quicken's Business Tools. After fiddling with this product for a month, I can say that it is absolutely worthless for budgeting personal and business expenses. In all fairness, I must say that the tax planner was helpful and the retirement planner seems competent, but Money's investment reports were easier to configure to get what I needed.
Quicken's Spending Planner was a huge disappointment and the main reason for my dissatisfaction. I spent a week with their email support trying to understand why actual spending was not showing up correctly in the report, only to find that the only fix was to delete several problematic transactions and their associated scheduled bills and re-enter them. Clearly, this is a program bug and Quicken would not acknowledge it. But what really irks me about the Spending Planner is that if you return a purchased item and receive a credit to your account, Quicken treats the credit as income, rather than as a correction to an expense. While this approach may comply with good accounting practices, for everyday budget management, this is a pain in the neck! Interestingly, the Spending Reports show net expenses. Another problem is that if you split a scheduled bill into a two parts -- a business expense and a personal expense, the Spending Planner cannot handle this and displays the full amount in the personal spending planner screen.
I am returning the software to Intuit, which fortunately has a 60-day money-back guarantee. I'm not sure what I'm going to use as a replacement, but I'm looking into Mvelopes, You Need a Budget, and dragging out the Excel spreadsheets like I did years ago for managing my investments.
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Summary: Wont install on Vista and cant get help
Comment: Don't buy it. Well I'm an MS Money user trying to switch to Quicken. I downloaded and installed and it errored out during install. Worked with their support via chat for 2 hours in India and they can't figure it out. Tried everything under the sun. Tried again to connect to chat the next night and got disconnected twice after waiting 25 minutes each time in the queue. No phone help after 8-5 business hours. Cant return it to Amazon because they don't do digital returns. So now I have to try and call Intuit during 8-5 while I'm at work to get a refund. I've had my vista machine for 3 years and this is the only product I haven't been able to install.
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Summary: Continues to be the best
Comment: Quicken continues to be the best money management for personal use and this version is more of the same. I don't like the fact that it won't accept the file import on credit cards and you have to have downloads available in the web connect format in order to import data directly. Other than that it covers all my needs for my personal and small business needs.
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Summary: Worth the upgrade
Comment: I've been a Quicken user for almost 20 years and my last version was 2008. I was hesitant trying 2010 so soon after its release because I, along with many others, have been stung by bugs that have plagued earlier versions and have previously taken months for Intuit to fix. I'm glad I made the switch.
PROS
- 1 data file instead of 6 (plus an Attachments folder). It was about time! The single file at 101MB was a little larger then my previous files at 96MB.
- Much more resource friendly. The 2008 version frequently took up 1GB or more of RAM on my 3GB Vista Home Premium system. This version takes up about 1/10 that. The many accounts I have (credit card, investment, banking) and the size of my file are probably atypical so your resource usage may vary.
- Faster loading of the application and updating of accounts. Hitting One Step Update is MUCH faster than before. One Step Update was the one action that slowed my system down and upped the memory usage quite a bit under 2008 and earlier versions. It still ups the memory usage but not nearly to the extent of before.
- More stability. 2008 used to crash intermittently - during One Step Updates. It might be too early to tell but so far no crashes.
CONS
- As other users have mentioned, the UI hadn't changed much in many years. This version is certainly no exception. It's still intuitive enough for new users to get up and running quickly. I'm not sure about MS Money users though (I tried MS Money a couple years back and I was thoroughly confused!).
- Memory leak? Previous version have suffered from this so it's nothing new. When I first start this version, it uses 57MB of RAM. After having it up for an hour and running One Step Update a few times, the RAM usage went up to 140MB. The more updates I do, the more memory used without any signs of the program releasing said memory after the operations have completed.
- Yearly updates. They're always rushing a new version out the door every year and it shows. They should spend a couple of years fixing/overhauling things or throw more developers at it (i.e. have an elite team of developers working on a revamp separate from the team that does incremental annual updates).
Overall, if you have had resource issues and update problems, and/or like the convenience of 1 data file, then 2010 is worth the upgrade. If you're perfectly happy with your current version then there is no compelling reason to upgrade other than Intuit shutting off online updates for versions over 3 years old (2007 users will HAVE to upgrade to keep downloading transactions from financial institutions).
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