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Posted by L Cramer on November 17, 2006, 5:46 am
Please log in for more thread options >>I moved to Money 2005 for 6 months
2005 was not a good year for Money. 2007 introduces little that's new, but
fixes a lot that was bad in previous versions, or so I'm told. So far, I've
stuck with 2004, but will likely switch to a Mac soon, although I understand
that Quicken Mac doesn't compare well with the pc version.
>I moved to Money 2005 for 6 months. Quicken 10 years prior. Regreted
> the switch. Paid the price for converting back (time in recreating
> history I wanted). Quicken is buggy right now, but much less then I
> experience with Money. Much less complaints about Quicken then Money on
> this board....IMHO.
>
> L Cramer wrote:
>> >>Maybe Microsoft Money would be a better alternative
>>
>> And here I was thinking of switching to Quicken.
>>
>> I'm afraid you can read the same complaints from Money users. As a
>> Money
>> user, I have several stock quotes that update only sporadically. "What's
>> the problem?" Imo, both programs try to do too much. They promise a lot
>> .
>> . . . . for not very much money. Numerous bugs are the result. Both
>> companies know that most people are unwilling to pay what it costs to
>> deliver a high quality program. Both have adopted a business model that
>> pushes frequent product updates that often introduce more bugs than
>> improvements.
>>
>> In Money's case, the 2007 version is probably the best since 2003-04,
>> i.e., they cleaned up some of the numerous bugs in the previous 2
>> versions,
>> although a recent poster on the Money board, who switched from Q to
>> M2007,
>> thought it was too buggy for him. So, beware!
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> > The update feature in Quicken to get stock and mutual fund updates
>> > seems
>> > to be getting worse everyday. What is the problem? Maybe Microsoft
>> > Money
>> > would be a better alternative. I have been a Quicken user since 1995
>> > and
>> > all I have seen is a deterioration of their product and services.
>> >
>
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