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Posted by Jeff on March 30, 2008, 6:38 pm
Please log in for more thread options Where is the Money newsgroup? I could not find it.
Jeff
Oilcan wrote:
> I had used Money 2005 for about six months. It was a resource hog on
> my machine, to much interaction with the web, too many ads and at the
> time in early 2005, the "Yodlee" interface was unreliable.
>
> I did find Money's reporting capabilities more to my liking. I
> switched back to Quicken 2005 in May 2005 when my Money file became
> so corrupted that I couldn't fix it - even with the backups I had :(.
> It took me a lot of time to get my Quicken files in order.
>
> The one other item I remember is the Money newsgroup was much more
> active with this one. However, I am sure they have some satisfied
> users.
> Oilcan
>
>>> For what it is worth, I was playing today with MS Money Plus Deluxe
>>> and thought to share some thoughts.
>>>
>>> It is absolutely terrible. Many of its features (retirement planner
>>> among others) only work if connected to the internet - which means
>>> it uses the Microsoft website instead of the purchased program. Many
>>> other components are similar and to work they require not only
>>> internet access but - to make things worse - permitting Active-X in
>>> Internet Explorer with all the risks involved.
>>>
>>> Just thought to share. Quicken is way better and at least privacy
>>> is better because your numbers remain on your PC instead of someone
>>> else's website.
>>>
>>> Jeff
>>
>> I used MS$ until the end of last year, MSMoney2005. When the
>> downloads quit, I also got tired of it's increasing slowness and
>> decided
>> it was time to switch. I'm fairly happy with the switch to Quicken
>> but conversion was such a PITA I ended up doing the switchover
>> at year end instead. So I've got a lot of historical still there. I
>> was also driven by family succession planning since the next
>> generation
>> uses Quicken. If I get hit by a bus, my wife is going to need the
>> kids to help her. She's a real Luddite!
>>
>> I was able to do "planning" and other tasks without the Internet
>> connection, perhaps the newer Money does different.
>>
>> Like Quicken, MSMoney will load your information onto the
>> corresponding website but you can disable that. I find them both
>> to be about the same, doing the same things only different approach
>> and UI. I DO find, however that Quicken is much faster.
>>
>> Still learning some of it's methods to better fit me however.
>> Especially the quickfill on entry.
>>
>> In my experience, MSMoney does a much better job at getting stock
>> quotes in a consistent and timely manner. Not being a day trader
>> it is not any kind of problem for me.
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