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Technology Stocks : CheckFree (CKFR) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Roger Bass who wrote (2092)	2/27/1998 4:24:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8545

Off Topic. >>why aren't you buying Quicken98 specifically ? Well, if we get shouted down, we should take it off thread, but maybe others are interested. Primarily it's a devil I know versus a devil I don't. It takes quite a while to really check out an application of any depth. Quicken is such that you really have to use it to try it, and once you've used it, it is VERY VERY difficult to go back. I'd have gone back to 5 except for this barrier and the fact that it's a 16-bit app. I'm now running NT, and NT and some 16-bit apps have major disagreements, and you just can't afford that with your vital records. I do not believe problems I might find with Q98 would be addressed, nor even listened to, based on my experience with Q6, which you already know about (at least generally). With Q6, downloading updates from Intuit's web page became impossible-- you had to let Intuit install the upgrade from the net. Well, I control what goes on my systems carefully, and I'm not letting anybody run updating aps on it from a network site with the network connection open and known, even if I trust them, and Intuit I'm afraid I don't trust. Sorry about that, but you asked. God only knows what system info they'd be collecting. Moreover, there was nothing on the list of improvements on the Q98 box which gave me any incentive whatsoever to take the considerable trouble to try it. In fact, the box read like "you should buy this because it's nearly 98 now and we need the money." And, of course, the implicit we'll throw in another bunch of functional regressions for free, hahaha, and no recourse. And, naturally, we'll fill your system directory with another set of 50 or 60 DLLs that will break frequently, and rewrite your ini file to suit our whim and tell you when it's time to buy Quicken 99 whether you want to know or not, and etc etc etc, until you will SWEAR you'll never buy another Intuit product again. Well, no thanks; it worked last time. I've already sworn.