On Feb 12, 12:05�am, neveroutoft...[at]gmail.com wrote:
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I've been using Money since 1995. I use the Lifetime Planner and work
with their breakout of living expenses verses Debt and Taxes as
separate. In their new savings and spending budget you need to put
your debt (ie) mortgage and taxes in one of their separate buckets
like "fun" so that just the living expenses show in your major
expenses in the budget. I KNOW what Money 2007 can and cannot do. I
work with it. For $25 a year it is great for me. I laugh at people who
use the stupid excuse that they will "go to Quicken" if Money isn't
fixed. Money is what Money is. I would never spend the time to learn
how Quicken works now. I'm sure it isn't any better or any worse than
Money 2007. JMHO. Steve

And Debt, such as loans is also part of the Living Expenses. This
makes the Life Time Planner totally useless.



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Microsoft representatives occasionally lurk here, but this is not considered
a forum for Microsoft-to-customer interaction. Sometimes they even offer
solutions--when one is immediately at hand, e.g., already in the MSKB. Even
the lurkers almost never acknowledge that they really are MS.

Money does NOT use Microsoft or Windows Update. You only get a Money patch
through Money Internet Updates.

Money only VERY RARELY issues fixes between versions. When they do, these
have ALWAYS been limited to "improvements" to issues that were high impact
(app wouldn't run or produced highly visible unusually bad results like
crashing in a register view or getting all, not just some, account balances
wrong) AND pervasive (for most or all users).

"Hysterium" <Hysterium[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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A response from a Microsoft employee is unlikely in this forum.
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Chris Cowles
Gainesville, FL

"Hysterium" <Hysterium[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Pay attention to taxes, as well. They may now be part of your expense
budget where they were not before. But estimated taxes are still part of
the long term projections. Go figure.
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Chris Cowles
Gainesville, FL


"Hysterium" <Hysterium[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Yes... I am very "Concerned" with the loss of programming logic that
heretofore was working - hmm what else is questionable?? I have used MONEY
from its first release and rely on it. The "ESTIMATE ANNUAL LIVING EXPENSES"
pop up from within LIFETIME PLANNER is inaccurate. It appears to KEEP debt as
part of the number it calculate (though it never did before and the help
screen explicitly say that it doesn't.... IT DOES!! I hope Microsoft is
monitoring this and fixes this, to me, critical issue. I will wait for a
reasonable amount of time for this to be corrected and if not.... Quicken
here I come....

"Chris Cowles" wrote:

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The Money developers left that out in 07.
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Chris Cowles
Gainesville, FL



"Samual" <Samual[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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In the "Estimate Annual Living Expenses" popup in the Lifetime Planner in
Money 2007 Deluxe 16...1024 the "Use the annual Budget estimate" option is
only excluding taxes to compute the annual living expenses. Even though it
computes the "Remaining funds" displayed in the same popup correctly - namely
income after taxes, savings contributions, and loans. In Money 2004 Deluxe
(which I just upgraded from) the "Annual Budget estimate" option computed
this correctly. Of course this problem is easily worked around by just typing
in the "Remaining funds" figure using the "Use this estimate" option. But I
checked my budget and everything seems to be assigned properly. Is this a bug
or did I miss something?