On Sat, 3 Nov 2007 19:18:00 -0700, gb1 wrote:

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I agree totally. I see nothing in M08 that improves what I was doing with
M04. I upgraded because Fidelity only downloads transactions directly from
within Money rather than downloading from the site. The same is true with
Discover.

Microsoft Money Users
Please note that you must initiate statement downloads from your financial
software, not from the Account Center.

At least Discover allows one to download a xls file. I have a program for
xls to qif so that I can create importable transactions for that. Fidelity
does not offer downloads to xls.

So, two years from now I will be faced with the same issue. Not only that,
I have lost a reliable PDA money as well. My wife still uses M04 with
Pocket Money and refuses to switch. However, she does not need transactions
from Fidelity.

I personally would prefer that they never released money 2005 onward. Was
very happy with 2004 but was forced to upgrade due to 3 year support window
expiring.

I find money 2007 (what I run) did not provide any value other than allowing
me to eat lunch/dinner while I wait for my transaction additions/changes to
be registerd - and this is on a fast 1 year old computer.

"Jeff M" wrote:

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Three comments inline below.

"Jeff M" <jamacq[at]gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1194111998.490110.239220[at]k79g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
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From the PoV of an M04 user it surely wasn't a big change. What M04 user
wanted Essential * -- all of the "Most users prefer(tm)" talk
notwithstanding?

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Sadly, you are probably right.

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Unfortunately, it seems that some of the bugs must be just too hard to fix
without some fundamental re-factoring. Witness Nuke The Bills. (I've seen
the kind of mold and slime that grows in code that's been in maintenance as
long as this has. Trust me. It gets UGLY.) Agreed, however, that if
"Essentials" is what we are going to get out of an overhaul, they would be
better to skip it.

I've seen a number of posts longing for a big overhaul to Money in the
near future. There was some speculation that 2008 would be the year
since in the past it was approximately every three years. I used to
be one of those individuals, always hoping for some great new
features.

I'm not so convinced any longer. I can't recall anyone being happy
with the big change from 2004 to 2005. We've now been getting minor
upgrades to the 2005 version each year and in truth, I think this is
good. If 2009 has some big overhaul, it will likely be an attempt to
even further simplify features and inevitably introduce a whole new
group of bugs/problems.

I'm relatively happy with Money Plus and I consider myself a power
user of Personal Finance Software. I am also currently running
Quicken 2008 Premier to compare its features and I still prefer Money
over Quicken in numerous ways. My vote would be for Money to continue
to address current bugs and continue to introduce one or two new
features each year and avoid the overhaul as long as possible.

Jeff