Wolf K on Thu, 9 Aug 2018 10:16:37 -0400 typed
in alt.windows7.general the following:
On 2018-08-08 20:12, pyotr filipivich wrote:
on Wed, 8 Aug 2018 12:15:34 -0400
typed in alt.windows7.general the following:
"pyotr wrote

| The problem with something like Adobe CS is that
| they know buying makes most sense for their customers.
| It takes months just to learn how to use it, so if you
| want it you probably want to own a copy. But that
| option makes the least money for them. So they don't
| allow an option. You can't decide which is best for
| your needs. You can only rent.
|
| Intuit did that with their Quicken accounting package back in
| 2005. Unless I updated the software, I could not even get my bank
| data loaded. I decided then and there, that as far as Quicken was
| concerned, nothing was better. And for the next six years, I used
| nothing.
Yikes. You mean they actually broke the existing
software you had bought? How was that possible?
I forget the details at this point. And it may have been that
while I could download the bank data, I could no longer update the
stock portfolio. I think it was the later, but the idea that I have
to send them money to keep using all the features, I was not a happy
customer.


Quicken offered yearly updates designed to "encourage" you to buy the
new version. Our club treasurer switched to another program.

From the Wikipedia article(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quicken):
"Beginning with Quicken 2018, Quicken is now a subscription service.
Annual memberships can be purchased directly from Quicken.com and
two-year subscriptions can be purchased through several retailers.[11]"

The article doesn't mention that annual updates were incompatible with
earlier versions.

That too. You could update the files, one way.


Have a good day,
--
pyotr filipivich
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