PC financial software: can you bank on it?

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Intuit's Quicken 98 and Microsoft Money can handle several financial activities, but users will need extra time and effort to maximize efficiency. Quicken offers cluttered and ugly screens, but it tends to be smarter. Users who enter deposits will receive an income category deposit rather than one for expenses. Money's clean new look resembles a Web browser, although its backup default uses the hard drive. Quicken's tax planner keeps it far ahead of Money, which has improved its great weakness of handling tax matters. Both products offer extensive ties to the Internet as well as unsophisticated calculators that ignore tax considerations and miscalculate complex tax issues. Quicken costs about $40 for its basic version, with a deluxe version costing about $60. Suite and home-and-business versions cost approximately $90. Money's standard version costs around $30, while a more a more sophisticated financial suite costs $50.

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Glimmers of the future on display

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Several products were exhibited at the 1997 Comdex-Fall trade show that hint at new directions in user-system interaction. For example, an IBM researcher showed an arrangement that uses cameras mounted above a computer's display screen so that images can be moved by merely gesturing. Another IBM innovation involves technology that lets a user write on a standard yellow legal pad. Unlike writing on a graphics tablet, the experience is similar to what a user ordinarily expects. A product called Crosspad is being developed, and over the long term, advanced handwriting recognition will probably be added to it. An initial version of Crosspad is expected early in 1998, from the Cross Pen Computing Group. Norcom Electronics Corp is working on a pocket microcassette recorder for continuous-speech dictation. The device uses Naturally Speaking software from Dragon Systems Inc.

Computer peripheral equipment, not elsewhere classified, Other Computer Peripheral Equipment Manufacturing, Card-Related Equip NEC, Usage, Hardware product development, Product development, Computer hardware, Column, Voice communications software, Voice recognition, Voice recognition software, Input device, Speech recognition, Speech recognition software, Input devices (Computers), Dragon Systems Inc., Comdex, I/O devices, Trade show report, Trade shows, NaturallySpeaking (Voice recognition software), User Interface, User interfaces (Computers), 1997 AD, Norcom Electronics Corp., Cross Pen Computing Group, A.T. Cross CrossPad (Graphics tablet)

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