So I bought a new computer a month or so ago. It came with some downloadable software. I'd had a good experience with MS money in the past so I decided I'd get it again. The copy of MS money 2000 that I had was excellent. It did everything I wanted it to do and it let me handle my finances with a lot more information on hand. It was exactly what I wanted.
The new MS Money is worthless. Quite possibly worse than worthless. It probably has negative value. The first step to getting into MS money is... signing onto your hotmail/passport account. WTF? Microsoft can't build a stable and secure browser- why would I want my delicate and private financial information in ANY way tied to Hotmail? There appears to be no way into MS Money without a hotmail/passport account. Since I had one from years ago, I logged on and promptly told it that I didn't want any of my information online at all ever.
Next you go to set up your accounts. But you can't. See... this is tied into something online also. When I tried to set up our accounts (we each have a checking and a savings at the same bank) it wouldn't let me. I kept getting a message that said a service is not available. It didn't say what service, how to fix the problem, or when it would be back. So all I could do was say "wells fargo" then it would drop me back to the home page.
After all of that, I finally discovered how to manually enter account information. But you can only enter a name, a balance and transactions manually. not credit rates, lender, due dates... anything. What little information you CAN access is counterintuitive and poorly handled. Basically- MS money is a bad bad thing.
So I paid money for Quicken.
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