Hi, P.J. I'm a former Quicken user and was for a long time too. Honestly,
the main reason I switched was I had switched from a Palm PDA to a Pocket PC
Pda and they didn't have (at the time) a Pocket Quicken version for the
Pocke PC. Other than that, I was really torn. The thing that put me over
the edge was the free year (2 year now, with 2004) of BillPay. As one of
the other posters stated, it's run by CheckFree, so it's an identical
service. I use BillPay a lot, so when I looked at the big picture, I was
upgrading for free. I had to pay for the software, but I was getting a
years worth of BillPay for nothing.

So I too would suggest you download the trial version of Money and give it a
whirl. That's one thing that MS has that Quicken doesn't...trial versions
to download and use.

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Bruce
"P.J. Hartman" <pjhartman[at]yahoo.com> wrote in message
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I'm also a Quicken user since Ver 2.0 for Win. I recently downloaded the
Money 2004 trial and am checking out Money. Frankly I like it a lot. I'm
thinking of changing. To answer your questions:

Money 2004 seamlessly imported my 18MB Quicken file. It did not import my
manual stock values that I had entered for mutual funds that don't have
tickers.

Money does web entry through MSN Money on the web.
Same for online viewing.
These are both about equal to Quicken.

I do not like the way the Debt Planner works in Money - specifically the
way it schedules transactions that don't show up in cash flow.

I like Quicken's retirement planner better. But I think this is just
personal. You can pretty much do everything with Money that Quicken's
Planner does.

I haven't tried Bill Pay yet, but it is also managed by Checkfree so it
should be as good as Quicken's.

Hope this helps. After the Turbo Tax dust-up I have lost faith in Intuit.
I'm looking for some alternative. I don't have any faith that MS is going
to be any more cutomer oriented than Intuit though.


pjhartman[at]yahoo.com (P.J. Hartman) wrote in
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On pjhartman[at]yahoo.com (P.J. Hartman) wrote:

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Pocket Quicken on the ppc. Intent to stay with it.

I have Money 2000 on my hp680, Microsoft stopped supporting
the HPC platform. I also have a Dell Axim, you need Money
2003 at least to run on the Axim. Since i'm locked into
2000 for the HPC i chose to get Pocket Quicken to
run on the Dell.

Which means i'll probably stick with Money 2000 until the
680 dies.
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I have a couple of questions regarding Money -- specifically, Money
2004.

I'm a Quicken user, and have been since dirt was invented. However,
I've tired of the unfixed bugs and Intuit's policies, and am seriously
considering a switch to Money. I understand that Money 2004 will
handle my Quicken 2003 data conversion. There are a couple of
"features", however, that I use as well, and am wondering if Microsoft
has any comparable vehicles.

1. Does MS have a webentry tool (similar to Quicken's Webentry
feature?)

2. Does MS have an online viewing tool (similar to
Quicken.com/MyFinances?)

Thanks in advance for all replies.

PJ