dh003i's Journal: Quicken and MS Money: A Case of WHAT THE FUCK IS UP?

I've been tyring to find a program with which to manage how much money we have left on grants at work. So, I've tried a couple of demos. What the fuck is up with this crap? When moving money from one account to another, it will say "deposit" in both accounts, despite the fact that money was withdrawn from one account and deposited into another. I'm no fucking accountant, but I know that that's fucking bullshit. On top of that, the programs completely bork things up when you download the qif files for different accounts if money moves from one account to another. Furthermore, it's filled with fucking ads. Earth to intuit: people are paying for the product, not fucking ads and annoying pop-up reminders.
So, I looked on Amazon.com to get some reviews for Quicken and MS Money. Wow, what complete crap. In each case, the more recent the version, the crappier the product. Some people have even said that they've gone back to 1994 versions of Quicken, because it's gotten so crappy. Meanwhile, MS Money displays its own array of inexcuseable bugs.

Unfortunately, it's difficult to come by versions of Quicken 2000 or earlier. It's too bad that GNUcash isn't available for Windows. It's been very good to me for my personal finances. Guess increasingly crappy products are the kinds of problems you run into when you create an artificial scarcity of goods.

I mean, these programs are so fucking bad I deleted free iso's I downloaded from Kazaa. The latest is definately not the greatest. If anyone knows of any alternatives, or good versions, please do tell.

I beg to differ

[gmhowell]

I've been using Quicken since about 1995. First on the Mac, then on the PC. The problems I have had with banking have never once been attributable to Quicken:) The program works about 99% as I expect it to. There are a few minor niggles. Is each version worth an upgrade? Definately not. But this version has a nicer interface and cleaner tools than the one I used eight years ago.

The trick, however, is that Quicken (and I assume MS Money) is not a bookkeeping program. It is a very nice, neat checkbook progra