Intuit sells Quicken to private equity firm in management buyout

Re:Intuit sells Quicken to private equity firm in management... by hackuser on Friday March 04, 2016 @06:01PM (#11227426)

Is anyone, besides open source projects, investing significantly in desktop consumer software?

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Re:Intuit sells Quicken to private equity firm in management... by basicplus2 on Friday March 04, 2016 @06:54PM (#11227658)

NCH

I use their accounts package, and a few of their other packages, I am satisfied.

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Re:Intuit sells Quicken to private equity firm in management... by asdfologist on Friday March 04, 2016 @06:37PM (#11227590)

Microsoft.

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Re:Intuit sells Quicken to private equity firm in management... by rgovind on Friday March 04, 2016 @06:10PM (#11227466)

Slack?

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Re:Intuit sells Quicken to private equity firm in management... by sandmansandine on Friday March 04, 2016 @06:23PM (#11227528)

Slack's desktop client is really just Electron I believe

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Re:Intuit sells Quicken to private equity firm in management... by timberburn on Friday March 04, 2016 @06:51PM (#11227645)

That's the direction consumer desktop apps should move. Cheaper to develop, maintain, update, etc.

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Re:Intuit sells Quicken to private equity firm in management... by cobalt on Friday March 04, 2016 @08:19PM (#11227946)

that's arguable

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Re:Intuit sells Quicken to private equity firm in management... by supercoder on Saturday March 05, 2016 @12:18AM (#11228535)

Slack is just a web app wrapped up on the desktop

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Re:Intuit sells Quicken to private equity firm in management... by knowaveragejoe on Friday March 04, 2016 @06:15PM (#11227486)

You don't need the desktop clients as far as I'm aware.

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Re:Intuit sells Quicken to private equity firm in management... by trimbo on Friday March 04, 2016 @06:33PM (#11227572)

Slack is aimed at businesses

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