Comments on: No More Microsoft Money After June 30

By: Jim in Atlanta

Jim in Atlanta — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:24:55 +0000

I used Quicken for a few years and got tired of all the bugs. I have been using MS Money for at least 6 years now. I wish someone would buy the right to sell Money from Microsoft and continue the product. All we need are the online updates. I don’t care about new features.

By: Sherry

Sherry — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:20:20 +0000

My bank now has online budgeting capabilities so I can understand why the need for this has diminished. I was always a Quicken user, but I do think the banks offer a lot of services now that they never have before.

By: Ed

Ed — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:47:54 +0000

Shoot I use MONEY 2007 because I operate in 2 currencies. I can download from any bank in the world. I used Quicken for 10 years but they didnot offer any multi currency bank facility. For a while I had USA Books on one computer & the foreign currency on another computer, but consolidating reports was bad. If Quicken has changed let me know. I had many long battles with Quicken in getting them to allow foreign downloads. So much so they wouldn’t answer my calls anymore. AT the time you could not load the USA version & a Canadian version on the same machine.

Gimmmmee back updated MONEY

Regards

By: Shane

Shane — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 03:50:57 +0000

We have been using MSMoney since 1993. Our finances are a little complex, having grown over the years. I work in IT as an IT Manager for a government entity in AU too. I tried a migration to Quicken (as I would with need to with my employer) and had some issues. When I pressed quicken about some of the issues that needed resolution, they became very awkward tro say the least. Especially given requests like the ones I was making were legitemate issues and would be actively resolved by other vendors. The event left me to conclude that they were less than helpful when support was needed. As my Wife has only just let me know that Money is discontinued, and we are still using 2002.AU version, I am not sure what the best alternative is. Even this late after Microsoft anounced it (mid 2009), there doesnt seem to be a practical alternative.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 09:16:57 +0000

Like others have said what I liked about MS Money is it allowed me to manually enter all transactions. I liked this for many reasons. Mint does not allow me to do that…does Quicken do that. I did this with investments, bank accounts, credit cards and reward programs. Does Quicken allow you to manually keep track of all these. The only extra item I liked from MS Money is it would updated the stock prices

By: Richard

Richard — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 23:06:01 +0000

I too have been using ms money for over 15 years. I found it easy to use and I definitely depend on the stock quote updates. I have looked at the conversion process for both quicken and moneydance. not very smooth and error prone. and the in both cases you still have to do a lot of manual verification and set up accounts before importing. first product that can read the .mny file and reproduce all the account info/transactions gets my business.

By: David

David — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:09:07 +0000

I am totally disappointed, too. I have tons of personal & business data going back to 2003. I relied heavily on the automatic update accounts features and not it disappears on Oct 09 when my subscription expires!! Bill. if you are listening.. can you please reconsider?? It’s just not right to abandon a good product that works so well.

By: Caryn

Caryn — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:14:46 +0000

I used Quicken for 2 years but switched to MSMoney in the early 90’s (it came with a new computer). It’s a shame Money is shutting down. While far from perfect, it has served me well and hate to see it go. I’ll proabably switch back to Quicken when my software expires.

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:31:45 +0000

I used Managing Your Money YEARS ago and it’s still the best PF software ever written! I cannot ever seem to get either Money or Quicken to work right. It’s always the syncing of the transactions that goes haywire.

It’s too bad Money is going down. It was the only thing that kept making Intuit improve their less-than-stellar product.

By: Russell

Russell — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:51:18 +0000

I was lucky to be given a custom made spreadsheet that duplicates the requirements of the UK self-assessment income tax forms. It was free and runs beautifully on Linux!