This is not the same as the normal money update process. When you purchase
a download of Money 2005 Premium from the Microsoft Web Site, you "only"
download an 8MB program which installs a very basic version of Money. When
you launch the program it displays a dialog saying "Additional Money program
files are now being downloaded to your computer. While the files are being
downloaded, you can continue to use Money and other programs. You will be
notified when the download process is complete. When you go to run parts of
the program such as budgets or reports, a page saying "Money Update in
Progress - This feature is not available until the upgrade is complete"
comes up and you can't use it.

I've posted in other threads showing the exact URL that is being requested
by Money and which is failing. This isn't the same as the normal money
update process which in fact does work in this basic version to make
requests for stock quotes.

Thanks,
Dave



"Bob Peel, MVP" <Bob_PeelNO SPAM[at]kiandra.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
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Not having been that route I can't be sure but what I think you are
experiencing is one of the Money Updates that everybody gets who goes
on-line. If I am right it is nothing to do with buying Money on-line.

However IMHO it is far far better to buy a physical media so that when your
PC goes belly up/needs rebuilding you have something immediately to hand to
reinstall Money.
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"rcm" <rcmorrow[at]hotmail.com> wrote in message
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I tried the MS Money download from the sight and ended up calling msn
to cancel as the download is only part of the program, upon first use
it "calls" home to download the rest of the functionality - this did
not happen after 6 hours. Will wait for store bought CD version.


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I think the 29.95 is not eligible for the rebate. Just a wild guess.

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regards,
Michael Abbaticchio
MVP for Microsoft Exchange Server
http://mvps.org/exchange


"Elena" <anonymous[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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WAIT until it is in the stores. THEN judge what the best price is.

Hi

I want to buy Money 2005 Deluxe so I was shopping around
various online stores... I finally came to the Microsoft
website to check if they were selling it. I came to this
page:
http://www.microsoft.com/products/info/list.aspx?
view=22&pcid=14db4579-2e42-49ec-870c-5cab747a1508&type=ctg

And then here:
http://www.microsoft.com/products/info/product.aspx?
view=22&pcid=b9b509dc-dde9-41bd-b6e5-96eb87fa5e67&type=ovr

On this page it shows Microsoft Money 2005 Deluxe being
sold at $29.95 which is the same price listed for the
Standard edition. All other online stores are selling
2005 Deluxe for $50+ so my question is... is the price on
the Microsoft website an error or is it a different
version (I did notice there were different item model
numbers from the ones found at other stores).

I hate buying something later to find out that there was
some big error and I won't be getting what I've bought...
so.. has anyone bought the Money 2005 Deluxe direct from
Microsoft without any problems?

Thanks!