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5 of 7 customers found the following review helpful:
 I'd Give It a "Zero" If I Could, 2004-11-06
Been a Money user since version 2002 and each upgrade has been a major improvement until 2005. Microsoft actually managed to make this product WORSE with this so-called upgrade. With what I assume was an effort to simplify the user experience, they've created a confounding piece of software that borderlines on completely unusable. After several days using it, I still don't understand even the simplest of tasks such as entering a new record in the registry. I'm hopeful things will indeed be "simplified" in version 2006, but until then I'm staying away from this upgrade.
12 of 14 customers found the following review helpful:
You can pay me $1000 to use this product and I won't, 2004-11-05
I'm horrified by this product and will not consider using it, here's why:
When you use its online statement download feature you have to provide a .NET password login in order to proceed, as this is done YOUR FINANCIAL INFORMATION IS UPLOADED to the MSN Money site without any warning and without your consent. In this age of rampant identity theft, do you dare to have all your financial information protected by a single password?
I found this out running the trial version and I'm staying with Money 2003.
5 of 10 customers found the following review helpful:
 Best Version Yet, 2004-11-02
I have been a Money faithful since the 1998 version. Every year I purchased the new version in hopes it would work better than the one before and work out the quirks.
One of the biggest quirks of 2003 and 2004 was the online banking and downloading of financial institution statements. The Autobalance feature rarely worked and I rarely had a checking account statement balance out without significant work.
I think they have finally fixed the the quirks and I have a balanced checking account and American Express account.
The portfolio manager is also great. It tells when dividends are expected and will automatically enters the correct dividend into your register.
This is the version of Money I think we all have been waiting for.
7 of 7 customers found the following review helpful:
Stay Away!, 2004-10-27
I upgraded from Money 2004 premium. I'm returning to the old version. I wasted two weeks time just trying to get this to work with my old data while going corresponding ad nauseum with Microsoft support. Depending on the financial institution involved,it created duplicate accounts with different names, downloaded incorrect balances, did not allow merging of all duplicate accounts, disrupted msn billpay , or failed completely. The worst upgrade experience I have ever had. It was a downgrade.
13 of 13 customers found the following review helpful:
Waste of Money, 2004-10-25
I upgraded from Money 2004. Money 2004 was good. I liked it. That's why I upgraded in the first place -- the new one can only be an improvement, right? WRONG.
I can't remember the last time I used a piece of software that infuriated me as much as this package has. It is first and foremost a usability nightmare. I haven't found anything that just doesn't work; but the experience of using the software is so incredibly bad you wouldn't believe it until you actually sat down and used it. It's like a bunch of people sat down in a room, discussed what they wanted the software to do, and then didn't think about how anyone would actually go about doing it. And then, as random programers implemented it, nobody sat down and actually tried to use the software to do anything other than verify technical accuracy.
Sure, it started off ok, with it's nice new slick blue color scheme and an improved login screen. But it goes downhill from there.
First problem appears to be automatically downloading transaction data from online providers. It won't do it, unless you sign up for a passport account. No thanks. Without a passport account, you have to click a down arrow that shows up after you highlight an icon with a pair of arrows pointing at each other, then select update now, then click "Update now", and then wait. If you click the arrow icon, you go to a summary page that doesn't give you the option of performing an update. Heaven forbid you actually look at the update screen while the update is occuring -- it shows an error message until the update completes. If you don't look at the update screen, you've got no idea of the progress of the update or it's status.
There is a new toolbar area, with starts life off cluttered with oversized icons wasting a good chunk of realestate at the top of the screen. And there isn't a way to get rid of it either.
The screen layout is heinous just about everywhere. It is so cluttered an unorganized it is almost impossible to figure out where to go for what you want to do. It is almost as bad as the front page for yahoo.com.
The UI is supposed to work like a webpage, meaning you've got a page of content and you navigate by clicking on links. But, instead of being intelligent about it and sizing the content in these pages to take up as much space as needed (because you can scroll the page), they make it take up a limited amount of space in subwindows.
And when I say limited, I mean LIMITED. The budget view has 8 lines of test displayed. EIGHT LINES! I can fit more text than that on the back of a friggin postcard!
The mousewheel support makes matters even worse. With the windows-in-windows concept, you can never be certain which window will scroll when you use the mousewheel -- but I assure you it will almost always be the one you didn't want to scroll. Normally a random subwindow scrolls, and there doesn't appear to be a way to convince the window you do want to scroll to scroll via the wheel.
If that wasn't bad enough, the mouse wheel scrolls through content in dropdown listboxes. Yes, that's right ladies and gentlemen, if you use the mousewheel in a misguided attempt to scroll the main window, you'll scroll through a crapload of options that you didn't want to change (nor will you know which option you started with). Things get even worse when the listbox controls a long running calculation. One flick of the mouse wheel and you'll be waiting 5 minutes for the software to finish "scrolling."
The other day, as I was trying to find the budget view again (because lord knows it isn't anyplace obvious), I got a popup asking me to take a survey. "Great", I think to myself, "now I can tell these guys what blows and maybe they'll fix it." But no, it's a survey for MSN.com. Worse, I got the survey every other time I clicked on a button in the package. Friggin popups in my financial management software. ARG!
This is just the tip of the iceberg. I could probably write a book on all the things that just suck with this software package. I can't find one thing about this product that I would consider to be an improvement over the previous version.
Don't waste your cash on this piece of software. Get MS Money 2004 or a product made by a different company. I'm definately moving back to the previous version.
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