Intuit’s Quicken 2007 products were released this week, on August 1st, I think. Rather than defend my upgrade compulsion, let me just admit that I decided I was going to be an early adapter for this year’s Home & Business edition.
My plan was to buy the CD version this afternoon. I would have except that retail stores are still happily selling full-price versions of Quicken 2006 products. Both Office Max and Office Depot had only last year’s version available.
I solved my problem by going to Intuit online and downloading the upgrade. (Here, if you’re looking yourself.) I would have liked to have a backup CD made for me, but my instant gratification needs were stronger.
How annoying that big stores in a big city are unloading their old inventory at list price! Given that Quicken is also one of the products that is frequently hawked by email spammers, I imagine that the 2006 products are going to be pushed heavily in the next few weeks.
So, fellow emptors, caveat.
I had a big problem two years ago when I downloaded both TurboTax and QuickBooks online, since I wanted to beat the rush at the stores. In the past I had always bought store copies.
That was the year that my computer hard drive completely failed and had to be rebuilt, and I didn’t have backup copies of the original programs. I had a terrible time getting new downloads, and I think I ended up having to buy them both again.
That was after quite a few conversations with “Fred” and “June” and “Mike” from India on the phone about what had happened.
Oh, well. Those are still my preferred home use programs for finance, although I use Peachtree for work and small business clients.
I don’t know what Intuit does for QuickBooks or TurboTax products, but for Quicken 2007 the screen says that I can log back on to my Quicken.com account any time in the next three years and re-download the software. Maybe Intuit learned from your pain?!