Past Microsoft Money Users - Question about Ads

Posted by aboutfinsoft@gmail.com on September 12, 2006, 6:52 am

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Are there any past users of Microsoft Money out there who were bugged
enough by the advertising in Money to switch to Quicken?

I use Quicken personally, but I have to cover Money as well for my work
writing reviews and tutorials for personal finance software. When I
use Microsoft Money, the advertising really gets on my nerves. I
recently clicked on the Taxes tab in Money 07 and an ad for Jessica
Alba's new movie appeared in a box on the Taxes page. I click on items
that I think will be planning tools and instead, a browser pops up with
content from the MSN Money website.

I sincerely hope Intuit never decideds to go this route with Quicken,
it is sooo irritating. I don't understand why Microsoft would need to
generate income through advertising in Money, especially with the
unrelated ads in personal finance software.

This bugs me so much that I decided to blog about it, and I don't
usually use my blog to vent frustrations. I would love to hear
opinions posted in my blog post comments at
http://financialsoft.about.com/b/a/257517.htm . Let me know if you
agree, or if you think I'm over reacting.

Have a great day!
Shelley
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Shelley Elmblad
About Financial Software
http://financialsoft.about.com

Posted by Croco Stimpy on September 13, 2006, 7:58 am

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I've used Quicken since the DOS days. I love the program.
That said, the very nano-second I see an ad, it goes in the trash and I will
find something else.
Very sad microsoft decided to alienate their customers that way. They may
have a good product, but a lot of people will never use it for that reason.

Then again, it's because of the ads on microsoft messenger that I got pushed
away and discovered Skype.
Far superior product, and I have microsofts ads to thank for changing to it.

> Are there any past users of Microsoft Money out there who were bugged

> enough by the advertising in Money to switch to Quicken?

> I use Quicken personally, but I have to cover Money as well for my work

> writing reviews and tutorials for personal finance software. When I

> use Microsoft Money, the advertising really gets on my nerves. I

> recently clicked on the Taxes tab in Money 07 and an ad for Jessica

> Alba's new movie appeared in a box on the Taxes page. I click on items

> that I think will be planning tools and instead, a browser pops up with

> content from the MSN Money website.

> I sincerely hope Intuit never decideds to go this route with Quicken,

> it is sooo irritating. I don't understand why Microsoft would need to

> generate income through advertising in Money, especially with the

> unrelated ads in personal finance software.

> This bugs me so much that I decided to blog about it, and I don't

> usually use my blog to vent frustrations. I would love to hear

> opinions posted in my blog post comments at

> http://financialsoft.about.com/b/a/257517.htm . Let me know if you

> agree, or if you think I'm over reacting.

> Have a great day!

> Shelley

> ------------------

> Shelley Elmblad

> About Financial Software

> http://financialsoft.about.com