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Every year, Intuit releases a new version of. Most years, I interview some honcho at Intuit who's running the personal finance division and we talk about where the category is going. The meetings got a lot more interesting a few years ago, when threw a monkey wrench into the personal finance software market, which led to Intuit acquiring Mint and bringing in its CEO, Aaron Patzer, to re-light the Quicken product line. (You can,, and from CNET Download.com.) Patzer came in with grand visions and ideas to make Quicken a more modern and relevant app. He planned to integrate Quicken with Mint and rewrite the app from scratch to make it possible for Intuit developers to update it more frequently. And by update it, he meant really improve it, not just add peripheral new features and re-skin the app every year, as they've been doing for about the last 10.

Nov 6, 2017 - Consumer World is warning Quicken users that the 2018 upgrade. [only] one year of Quicken, that data downloads stop at the end of the term. When Quicken introduced annual subscriptions in Canada earlier. I've been using Quicken since 2004 for multiple sets of books (home, farm, church, in-laws).

Patzer, though, is no longer running the Quicken group at Intuit. Instead, Aaron Forth, another Mint executive who came along with the acquisition, is at the wheel. He has similar talking points as Patzer, but his time at Intuit has made him more realistic (or perhaps resigned) about the future of Quicken, the latest version of which, Quicken 2012, came out today. Braa grim bajke pdf file.

Quicken 2012 helps you see how its plans to spend down credit card debt will help you save money. Intuit 'The platform of the future is Mint,' Forth told me. Not reassuring words to an old Quicken user like me, nor perhaps to the large but dwindling proportion of the population that relies on the old app to manage their personal finances. Forth says the Mint Web app will get the main features it needs to be a credible alternative to Quicken: bill payment and more serious investment tracking.

He doesn't say when, though. Related stories • • From 2009: • • It's got a refreshed UI and an option for bigger fonts, Forth tells me. Apparently Quicken's user base is getting so old that Intuit needed to make it into a large-print app.

I'm not kidding. And, frankly, as one of the old guys who's been using Quicken since 1988, and who has, since then, acquired trifocals, I appreciate it. Really big updates are coming, Forth says, in 'the next version of Quicken.' I'll wait and without holding my breath even for a second. I recommend that other users wait as well, except for those who are still using Quicken 2008 or previous. That's because Intuit is continuing its policy of 'sunsetting' Quicken versions after three years.

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