Welcome to Quicken 2005. . . 2006
Once upon a time, Intuit bundled Quicken and Turbotax together. Thus, whenever it came time to do my taxes, I would buy the bundle and update Quicken. For some fool reason, they stopped doing this, and I stopped updating Quicken, using Turbotax on-line instead.
Well, now Intuit has come up with another way to force sell Quicken upgrades to users. "We're no longer supporting older versions," they announce. Fine, I go ahead and do the update to Quicken 2005.
Problem is it took so gosh darn long to do the update - seven, count them, seven steps, including asking me at the very end whether I really wanted to start using Quicken 2005 (just in case there was any doubt) - that Quicken 2006 came out before I started using 2005. Time to upgrade again, by which time. . .
Comments
There seems to be a lot of this going around. My laptop (a 2001 model) shipped with Norton AntiVirus 2002, which I don't like, but which I decided to keep because it seemed more stable and less crashprone than later versions. This year, Symantec doubled the price of renewal, and hinted darkly that there would be no next year on this product.
I'm counting down the days until the uninstall.
Posted by: CGHill | February 5, 2005 07:30 PM