Well, I know I will get it, and probably soon. I've been upgrading about every year since forever, starting with Managing Your Money for DOS about 10 years ago, and now going through about three versions of Quicken.
This sounds like a complete change in layout and philosophy for Quicken. It may take some getting used to. Good thing I have some time off coming soon.
One place where the old MYM had Quicken beat was in tax planning, and budgeting. From your description, it sounds as though Q99 may have addressed these shortcomings. I sure hope so. Right now I'm totally in the dark about whether I will owe the IRS anything next year, or vice versa. MYM used to have an easy and almost accurate estimator, but if Q98 has one I sure haven't found it.
One question -- Does it seem to you that with Q99 we will be sending more personal data to Intuit or the bank, even inadvertently? I don't think Intuit or my bank need to know what stocks I own, for example. And I don't think Schwab or Intuit need to know how much I owe on the house, either. I'm just funny that way. (Similar to being stupid in Michigan, I suppose.)
BTW, do you know of any Visa card that supports Quicken and also awards frequent flyer miles on American? I'm using Citi Visa now but I've about had it with their refusal to support Quicken, forcing me to download a .QIF file over their kludgy, sloooooow new web banking site.
Thanks for the update, Tom
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