It seems that Intuit will pull the plug on some features of older versions of Quicken this spring.
Retirement of Online Services for older versions of Quicken
As of April 19th, 2005, in accordance with the Quicken sunset policy, Online Services and Live Technical Support will no longer be available for Quicken 2001 and 2002 users. These services include online bill pay; downloading financial data from your bank, credit union, credit card, brokerage, 401(k) or mutual fund accounts; downloading stock quotes, news headlines and other financial information into Quicken; uploading portfolio information from Quicken to Quicken.com; and access to the investing features on Quicken.com including portfolio tracking, any watch lists you have created, One-Click Scorecard?, Stock Evaluator and Mutual Fund Evaluator. To continue using these services and maintain access to live technical support from an Intuit representative, you will need to upgrade.
NewMexiKen runs Quicken 2002 and it serves perfectly well. I don’t use many of the features that will be “retired” on April 19th, but I find this policy apprehensible. I don’t remember any warnings on the box that I was just renting some features of the software for a couple of years.
The only alternative may be the Evil Empire and Microsoft Money but this kind of business model deserves to be scorned.
Ken,
I think you mean reprehensible. I use Quick 2001 and don’t plan to upgrade. This was a lot more than your typical software “sunset”. Wouldn’t be surprised if they changed their tune before April.
Also, save some scorn for Apple.
Indeed, I did mean reprehensible.
When Ken misuses a word it makes me aprehensible.
It’s what seperates us from monkeys and apes; that we have prehensible attitudes concerning linguistic skills.