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Next Version Of Quicken: Not Quicken

I have a love/hate relationship with Quicken. I love it's features and capabilities, I hate it's bugs and UI and poor quality from Intuit. Looks like they are addressing these issues. ArsTechnica visited the Intuit booth at Macworld and found a whole new Quicken like application called "Quicken Financial Life for Mac".

The 1.0 release will focus on core features: cashflow, downloading, taxes, budgeting. It will not work well with investments, being limited to tracking your holdings. As an example, I own 1000 shares of Apple (I wish), and that's worth $180,000 or whatever it is at the end of the day after downloading security info. Why the feature retrograde? Because QFLM is a whole new application—Cocoa from the ground up. It's a Universal Binary that takes advantage of Leopard... though I forget to ask if it is Leopard only. I'll update on on that. Intuit is currently looking for beta testers, so now is a good time to sign up... somewhere. You can do it here. It's your fault for not being here.

They say it's not feature comparable to the current version of Quicken, but it seems to have the features I'm interested in. I would sign up to be a beta tester if I could figure out where. I've signed up many years before but they have yet to ask me.