This was a vote with your wallet decision.

I've written Intuit several times over the years about
minor features they ought to have. Case in point, in Cash
accounts, they ought to have an option to consider all
transactions as reconciled as they are entered. It makes
it impossible to archive a year out if you have to
manually update hundreds of transactions.

Second and bigger is their interface. It a jamble of
various versions (I've used all of their windows
versions). Their's not any consistency. Some place look
like windows 3.1, some like win95, and some like winxp.
Features are hidden in odd places.

All and all it was time to try something new. Now I'm
beginning to regret it...


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Kick Money 2005 to the curb. I've been on Money since
1997 and have been very happy. However, it appears as
though new features and capabilities have diminished
since 2002.

It's ironic that many of the M05 users want to go to
Quicken and yet you've moved from Quicken to Money.

Why did you leave Quicken?


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I just switched this past weekend.

From the universe of the bizarre:
-Money takes over 1 minute to load.
-It frequently said that it had updates to install, but
never installed anything.

I finally determined that when Boinc/Setiathome was
running, M05 would get little CPU time. As soon as I
disabled Boinc, Money loads instantly and the update
download occurred as soon as the notice displayed.

-Converting transactions from Quicken went fairly well
except for transaction that had categories in common with
money and those same categories had subcategories in
Quicken. In this case no categorization occurred. The
converter wouldn't create the subcategories and keep the
original categorization. This cost me 3-4 hours to
recategorize transactions for this year along. I haven't
even looked at my previous years, which go to the mid-90s.

-Viewing my investment information online is useless. My
investment data appears to have been written to msn once
and that was it. One of my funds on msn doesn't even
record that I own hundreds of shares. I've setup passport
and have updates running everytime I exit money. No
updates. I records sales and purchases of new stocks,
which I had to create new accounts for. This isn't
present either. Don't know what to do about this - but it
is annoying.

On the good side...
I created a report that I already had in Quicken. It
displayed a transaction that Quicken refused to display.
It looks like Quicken 04 has a reporting bug.

I've been in Money since last Friday. I invested a lot of
time to convert, but am considering switching back to
Q04. If I revert, I'd like to get my money back, but sent
the rebate in already. (I know, I need to wait a couple
of days, but I do these while I think about it or else I
forget.)

Reading the newsgroup isn't giving me the warm fuzzies
about staying with M05.