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BookmarkItem # : 31439G. If you have a home business or are self-employed, you need Quicken Home & Business 2008. It is the only Quicken software that brings your personal and business finances together – while letting you manage them both separately – for a complete view of your financial picture.
Product Description
Quicken Home & Business 2008 – complete package
Category : Home / entertainment / lifestyle applications
Subcategory : Home / life – personal finance / tax preparation
License Type : Complete package
License Qty : 1 user
License Pricing : Standard
Language(s) : English
Platform : Windows
Distribution Media : CD-ROM
Package Type : Retail
OS Required : Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows 2003
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Good alternative to buying the expensive current version. This gives me all I need for my consulting business.
This product has me manage my finances more effectively. It updates my accounts online,making it very convenient to use.
It appears to be fine… can’t use it at home because I have quicken personal 2009, but can use it on another computer.
I’m sorry to have to add my voice to the chours of boos relative to Quicken Home and Business. Intuit, the makers of Quicken, have two rock-solid products: Turbortax and Quickbooks Pro. Quicken used to be rock solid, but not anymore.
I had used Quicken from 2000 through 2005 and then gave up on it. As many reviewers have already noticed, Intuit forces you to upgrade every few years or so by eliminating the ability to download information from your bank accounts, one of the core competencies of the program. While I don’t approve of that practice, I can understand why they do it, and might be okay with it if the resulting upgrades were rock solid. That’s where the problem starts.
In my case, after installing Quicken Home and Business 2008 on my Windows Vista SP1 machine, I went through the initial interview (part of “Express Setup”), which is necessary to get going in Quicken. Everything goes fine, including Quicken’s ability to recognize my bank and the several accounts I have there, until I click “finish” the interview. Then Quicken invariably crashes. The cause is a crash in the MSVCR80.dll, which is part of Microsoft’s C++ Runtime Libaray, and an essential component of Microsoft Office, among others. I have tried uninstalling, reinstalling and repairing my Quicken installation. I have tried running as an Administrator and with UAC controls turned off. Nothing.
I then searched for answers on Intuit’s website. Nothing on MSVCR80.dll. I tried phone support, but they’re only available during business hours, and this happened Saturday morning. I tried live chat, and was not able to connect with their service. I tried it a day later and was able to connect with their service but not with an agent, as their service simply disconnected me before an agent ever came on. Repeatedly.
So here it is, the same verdict, by the way as delivered by PC Magazine: I could live with Quicken forcing you to upgrade if the resulting application were rock solid.
I could live with it if Quicken was fast.
I could live with it if Quicken was stable.
I could live with it if Quicken connected seemlessly to my bank and downloads always worked.
I could live with it if Quicken was not a resource hog.
However, to force clients to upgrade and then provide a product that is such bloatware and so unruly that you can’t geven get past the initial interview? That, my friends, is inexcusable.
Have been using personal Quicken since the ’90′s. This is the first time I have tried the H&B version. I chose the 2008 version after reading reviews indicating that it was much better than the 2009 version.
I am having problems with co-ordinating business and personal accounts. It seems that this version believes everyone is a good little follower and keeps the two types of accounts separate. I, on the other hand, have always used the same physical accounts for both personal and business needs and used my previous Quickens to separate my funds “on paper”. Went to both Help and online Help, Quicken does not address this issue. Found in the Community Forum that it is a common issue with no easy answer.
I am having problems printing titles on the same page as the reports. Went to Helps again, and again no help. The community forum does address the issue, but I refuse to go monkeying around in my registry or with my printers. I shouldn’t need to be a computer specialist to use this version. Plug and play! I have never had this problem with my other Quickens.
Getting help is frustrating…….I was in the tax planning area and needed help. Clicked for Quicken’s online support and got sent to Turbotax. My problem was not tax-related but more simply about how to enter something in Quicken. Turbotax site was A) NOT WHERE I WANTED TO BE, and B) no help on my issue, and C) had no way to quickly go to the Quicken help site. Sent an e-mail to the Turbotax site where the response came with a 1-800 phone number. Just put a darn link on the site.
Perhaps as I gain more experience with the product, I won’t be so frustrated. On the other hand, if an old Quickenite like me gets this frustrated with a relatively new product………..it says something about the product.