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

To: TLindt who wrote (8426)	10/31/1998 10:30:00 AM
From: Brooks Jackson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8545

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

To: TLindt who wrote (8426)	11/1/1998 12:41:00 PM
From: p friend	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 8545

What sort of notice has anyone received that Checkfree direct with Quicken would be discontinued at the end of November? I have not received any notice and am still using the old $5.95 per month service with a small-time bank with no online services. If Checkfree is trying to convert us old timers they are not being very informative, since I have not received any notices or requests from them about this. Did I misread an upthread post? Will I be converting to doing this through Intuit very soon whether I want to or not?