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You are an idiot if you EXPECT a $30 a year product to perform like a personal
finance wizard. Believe me, you get a lot of great financial help from Money
2004 for what you pay. Of course it isn't perfect, but if you use your head you
will find it really helps with financial planning. JMHO. Steve

Thanks for the info! As I mentioned in my original post,
I'm also considering Quicken. And while I realize that
everyone here uses Money and no doubt views Quicken as
the enemy, I figure it's at least worth considering if
I'm going to make a change anyway. I assume both
programs are far more similar than they are different,
but if anyone has any experience using both products and
could recommend one over the other that would be great
too. Thanks!

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I've used Quicken for over 12 years, and "upgraded" from version to version
over that time. Like so many other Intuit customers I've grown disenchanted
with their crap attitude and increasingly awful software. I thought about a
change to Micro$oft Money and asked a question in this group that nobody
answered.

Never mind, I downloaded the International English trial version of Money
2004 and set about testing it. As advertised it imported my QIF files, all
the accounts balanced and I set out to try the reporting that had been the
reason for my question. After creating an account summary report I changed
the grouping basis to Category and lo and behold, apparently, early last
year we paid the building cleaner 464 thousand trillion dollars. No thanks
Bill, failed within ten minutes of starting the "trial".

In short, Quicken 2004 sucks and Money 2004 sucks. Ignore the FUD that the
M$ "MVP's " post in this group and try www.gnucash.org It's not particularly
special either but at least you're not lining the pockets of greedy bastards
who only give a shit about parting you from your hard earned dollars.

Paul

oh yes, before some enlightened guru points out that GnuCash doesn't run on
Windoze, I know. Try Linux,, it's worth it and its authors haven't hidden a
"critical" security flaw for the last six months.


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Can't hold a candle to M98.

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actually that was money 2000. Money 2000 was by far the worst version of
Money, ever.
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Addendum: maybe my memory is wrong about which version of Money was the Big
Slowdown version. Maybe M01 was the one?

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I'm skeptical the recent Passport problems have anything to do with your
version of Money.

M04 seems OK. The (only?) major change since M01 was the M02 re-design of
the scheduled bills interface. What was two screens that confused some
people became one that causes a whole batch of different problems. Now you
can edit any of the next 12 occurrences of a scheduled item--a good thing.
But the old list that showed every instance of upcoming items disappeared.
Along with that came a really annoying simplification of the types of
transactions that can be scheduled and lots of limitations in how they can
be scheduled that have nothing to do with how transactions can be entered.

M01 was much faster than M02. M03 and M04 are each slightly faster than the
immediate predecessor. M01 was certainly the fastest of the post-M97
versions.

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Hi, I currently use Money 2001 but may be looking to
upgrade to a newer version due to the Passport issues
I've had lately. Since Money 2001 isn't supported
anymore, it's unlikely that Microsoft will fix it.

Anyway, I was hoping to hear from some of you who have
used some of the recent versions of Money such as 2002,
03, 04 or all of the above to see what version you would
recommend. I'm a big fan of 2001 (when it works) so
hopefully the newer versions aren't radically different.

I'm also looking at Quicken, although I'd prefer to stick
with Money since I've used 2001 for a few years and feel
comfortable with the look and feel.
Thanks in advance for any advice!!