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Originally Posted by tripods68
Don't you have to upgrade every year to use Quicken, correct me if i'm wrong?
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Well, sort of. Quicken has a "Sunset Policy" where they no longer support products that are x (3, I think?) years old. So if you want to keep getting customer support, patches, etc., then you should re-buy Quicken once your version has been sunsetted. But honestly, so many improvements will probably have been made in that time that you'll want to do it anyway.
OP - I have used both Quicken for Mac and quicken for Windows. Quicken for Windows is a FAR superior product. The mac version has been left in the dust a long time ago (which is why we dumped it in favor of the windows version -- we have both a mac and a PC in the house). Quicken for Mac is not a bad program, but it's very annoying that they couldn't deliver parallel programs instead of a premium program and an also-ran. :/ In any case, please be sure that you are hearing raves about the product on the platform you are using.
One thing that neither Quicken does, which apparently a lot of people wish it did - is envelope accounting. If that is the way you do your finances, either version of Quicken is not for you.