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10/15/16: Quicken user for over 20+ years who upgrades annually to the latest version and depends heavily on it for managing finances, investments, and reporting. For my use case, there currently isn’t an alternative to Quicken for personal money management. I upgraded from Quicken 2016 Premier and am running the latest version of Windows 10 Enterprise. I have several different Quicken data files, the largest which is approximately 150MB and I do not use the mobile app feature. Quicken 2017 is the first release under Quicken’s new owners, a private equity firm. The upgrade installation process was relatively fast compared to what I’ve experienced in prior versions and there was no data file backup and conversion step. Quicken 2017 appears to use the same data file as Quicken 2016. The most noticeable difference is the user interface, which has a modern streamlined look. I didn’t care for the garish pastel colors applied to the graphs in my existing views. I observed significant improvements in performance, such as when launching Quicken, opening data files, scrolling account register windows, switching between accounts, and downloading transactions. For these improvements alone, I would upgrade. After using it for a few days, the initial release (R2) appears to be stable, though some of the bugs I had in Quicken 2016 still exist in Quicken 2017. Such as Quicken hanging (becoming non responsive) when quitting the application or switching between accounts after downloading transactions. This requires ending the Quicken task using the Task Manager but no data loss. I saw some new bugs which are being reported by other users. As a long-time Quicken user (and early adopter of a new release) you just expect to deal with bugs and rely on support from the Quicken community, which is very active and helpful. Earlier this year Quicken updated its community platform host which provides better interaction. 1/28/2017 UPDATE: Been using Quicken 2017 for over 3 months which is now at R4. Due to the recent updates, stability appears to have greatly improved. I haven't had Quicken become non responsive which required ending the Quicken task for quite some time. R3 created havoc with my User Interface but was able to get it looking acceptable with help from the Community. I am pleased with the improvements and direction the product is taking under the new ownership. 10/23/2017 UPDATE: Used it for over a year, and now at version R15. Several of the recent updates were related to switching to Quicken ID and servers for authentication. I found Quicken 2017 to very stable in the last few months and was able to switch my ID switch with minimal disruption, though it was not totally seamless and had about 3 patches in a couple of weeks to fix the bugs related to the migration. The company was pretty responsive in fixing the issues. I have upgraded to Quicken 2018 Premier, which was released today. It is subscription based, e.g, you pay annually. This wasn't an issue for me as I upgraded annually, and subscription cost is actually less than what I have annually paid. If you use Quicken Billpay with Quicken, you get it free as part of Quicken Premier. Billpay cost me $9.95/month, so the Billpay feature alone, makes it where I actually come out ahead saving around 70% annually. ($75/year for Q2018 subscription including Billpay vs. ~$100/year annually for Quicken + 12*9.95 for Billpay). It is a bit of hassle to re-enroll in Billpay and setup all your payees. I believe the the 2017 license will permit use for 3 years; so, there is time for those of you who want to avoid getting on a subscription for the next 2 years.