In microsoft.public.money, Don Awalt wrote:

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See
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/c...moneyhp_lg.jpg

Thanks for the report - I had one question though, what kind of stuff can
you see/do with the sidebar you discuss in point 5?

thanks


"Jay Baker" <jaycsco[at]myway.com> wrote in message
news:1095384131.444516[at]sj-nntpcache-5...
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Found a copy in the Best Buy in Raleigh, NC.

Loaded it up and converted my 2004 data. Process seemed to go ok.

Here's some initial impressions...

1. Slower... I kept task manager up and saw 100% CPU quite often. 2004 wasn't a
speed deamon, but it was better than 2005 so far.

2. Etrade... apparently, it tried to match up my 2 accounts with those online
and failed since 2004 has a bunch of 'X's as the first couple of digits in the
account numbers. This caused 2005 to think that the accounts are different. So I
ended up with 2 copies of the same account. The help indicated that I could
merge them, so I did, but ended up with duplicate transactions which I had to
manually fix.

3. The whole program is extremly 'blue'... the basic interface is very similar,
but the new theme is baby blue... lots of baby blue! The program now resembles
even more than ever Internet Explorer... basically a browser.

4. Default was the essential stuff, but I immediately changed it to the more
detailed views which looks mostly like 2004.

5. I like the new 'sidebar' on the home page... lot's of useful stuff there and
easier to get to.

6. No ads!!! ;-)

I'll play some more and post... I would strongly suggest though that you backup
your 2004 or earlier install before installing 2005. Stuff like the account
merge issue I hit could cause you problems.

Jay