Review by J. Donaldson

We’ve been using Quicken 2010. I know that Intuit forces us to upgrade every three years so I took a look at Amazon user comments on Quicken 2012. I won’t buy 2012 because the budget method was changed. I rely heavily on the budget portion of the program and like it the way it is. Apparently Intuit made budgeting like Mint and after trying Mint a year ago I hated the budget feature.

So I took a look at user comment on 2011 which seemed to suggest it was only a slight upgrade from 2010. Year old Quicken programs are marked down in price so I bought it.

Installation was smooth, upgrading my huge 15+ year old database took about 10 minutes (reasonably fast computer) and it seems to be working fine so far. I have only tested it for about an hour. I’ll chime in if I find anything to report.

So this gives me another year on the three year forced upgrade. Hopefully Intuit will get smart about the budget fiasco and do something to improve it. Too bad they don’t allow trial downloads so I can take a look at it for myself.

Update 3/9/2012:nOne irritating thing I’ve noticed about the 2011 version is it seems I always have to hit Enter twice to move to the next field when I’ve entered something in the Payee field. I have the preferences box to move to the next field checked.