Thank you for that information Cal. It's good we can all correct each
other.
--
Peace,
BobJ

"Cal Learner-- MVP" <via_newsgroup[at]please.tnx> wrote in message
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In microsoft.public.money, Marilyn & Bob wrote:

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While that was originally planned for 2005 and 2006, when the
expiration times for those came they did not actually disable the
ability to download from the bank's website or from OFX servers at
your FI that were already set up in the Money file before
expiration.

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I think Dick (who does not download) is wrong on this one. The ability to
download bank and credit card information *is scheduled* to stop working two
years (with Deluxe) after Money is activated. This is true even if you
manually download the data from the bank's website. Now I say *scheduled*
to stop working as that is what the license says. But that was based on the
plan that there would be a new version of Money each year. And M$ has
apparently now abandoned that plan. While M$ stopped producing an annual
update of their International version in 2005, they continue to allow users
to download with that product. So the answer is that none of us know what
M$ will do when the two years are up. They could just let the downloads
continue or they could charge a reregistration of Money at an additional fee
for it to continue to work.
--
Peace,
BobJ

"Dick Watson" <littlegreengecko[at]mind-enufalready-spring.com> wrote in
message news:eqIrBDJhJHA.3728[at]TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
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"It Depends"

Some banks allow direct connection you to them and it is believed these will
continue to work. Others require going through Microsoft and Yodlee and
these will terminate or have some fee-based extension is the best present
guess.

You can decode which is which from the tool at the Microsoft site (somewhere
in http://www.microsoft.com/money") the words "direct connect* *via third
party services" which means Yodlee or similar.

"Jerry Bank" <bankcello[at]verizon.net> wrote in message
news:21dcdc22-c20b-421e-81a4-131d0e36e20e[at]o40g2000yqb.googlegroups.com...
What I want to know is whether I will be able to download my activity
from credit cards and bank accounts and have Money accept that. That
is what goes away in Quicken.

What I want to know is whether I will be able to download my activity
from credit cards and bank accounts and have Money accept that. That
is what goes away in Quicken.

On Jan 31, 5:46*pm, "Dick Watson" <littlegreenge...[at]mind-enufalready-
spring.com> wrote:
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Well, I don't know the exact question they thought they were answering.
Beyond that, your guess is as good as mine. Either or both seem possible. I
could quote the EULA or the "Online Services Policy" or refer you to
postings of people who have "fallen off the wagon" already. It doesn't stop
working entirely--maybe that's the question they thought they were answering
or the one they actually wanted to answer. The web-based services that cost
Microsoft ongoing money to provide will not last forever for free. Of
course, support (such as it has been) and things like tax estimator rate
updates won't last forever either, but the policy on those isn't as
explicit.

"Jerry Bank" <bankcello[at]peoplepc.com> wrote in message
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In article <Oi1dAU8gJHA.2384[at]TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl> ,
littlegreengecko[at]mind-enufalready-spring.com says...
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there is no time limit. Are they just uninformed or are they lying?
--
Jerry Bank
Trenton, New Jersey
Music is the language of the gods.

Short answer is yes. Long answer is still basically yes. Money would
probably not have done it if Quicken hadn't done it first. Of course, if
Quicken hadn't done it, it might have sped up Microsoft's timetable to exit
the business.

The better current question is will there be any alternatives to the
functionality going away completely? In the recent past, users have gotten
around this by buying the new versions. As of this writing Microsoft's
future release plan for Money is, at best, "TBD". Recent pruning of units at
Microsoft that aren't meeting their business case objectives *may not* bode
well that this particular path will keep Money working into the future.
Their may be other paths offered. None have been as of yet. We just don't
know anything about the status of the Money effort inside Microsoft.

"Jerry Bank" <bankcello[at]verizon.net> wrote in message
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I have used Quicken for many years. However, they have a policy of
the program losing some of its functionality after two years. Does MS
Money do the same thing?

Thanks.