If you just want to keep track of your checkbook and charges, why use
quicken at all? Any simple database program can do that. I do it with
a simple database I made a dozen or more years ago. I've migrated it
through several different DB engines as things changed. It works fine.
Very little of what I do today with image processing was anywhere near
as easy and productive to do in PS 4. Same for my writing and document
creation comparing AppleWorks and Pages.
G
On Oct 24, 2008, at 10:54 AM, Joseph McAllister wrote:
It's been a long long time since I've filled up my hard drives with
LimeWire downloads that I hardly or never used, and I understand the
corporate need to perpetuate.
That being said, I get cranked every time I run into the invisible
wall created by the collusion of hardware and software producers,
causing you to HAVE to upgrade your software to run on the newer
hardware, which you HAVE to buy because the software producer ceases
support for the older versions. Not a problem for the corporate
worker-bees, or government drones, but a substantial burden on the
self employed or retired.
Most of what I do today I could still be doing in PS 4, Pagemaker 4,
Quicken 2000, and AppleWorks. But none of those will run on current
equipment, or are no longer around nor have any support, no minor
upgrades to run on newer hardware, not even an upgrade 'path'.
The worst is Quicken, who forces you to upgrade at full price every
3 years, as they roll off support for the older versions. My Quicken
2006 will not run on my iMac under 10.4 or later, and there is no
upgrade path. I just want to use it to keep track of my checkbook
and charges. I don't need all the 100s of NEW features for tracking
my investments, graphing everything in seventeen different forms.
Back in the 90s they even got the banks to change to a new form of
download files so you couldn't use the older versions of Quicken at
all.
So when I'm offered (as I am almost every day via email) the latest
greatest version of even $50 software, let alone $1400 stuff, for $.
10 on the $1.00, it gives me pause for thought.
Joseph McAllister
Lots of gear, not much time
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