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5 of 6 customers found the following review helpful:
 Works for me!!, 2006-03-01
I am currently trying the 90 day free trial for Money Deluxe 2006. Also, I purchased Quicken Premier for Business 2006 and have returned Quicken which has a 60 day return policy. i tried both head to head. I do like some feautures in each product. Quicken downloads your accounts much quicker then Money does. I have a big problem with Quicken. I cannot download a QIF file. Since my main credit card is in a QIF file i cannot track that. So, for me, that alone is a deal breaker and MS Money will work with that credit card company. Quicken does have some great online support features but for Money I needed to register and couldn't find the key I needed. maybe this is because it is a free trial version.Each program has it's own idiosynchroncies. It did take a while for me to get the accounts right in Money 2006. They appear to be fine now. There is definitely a learning curve for each prroduct. i recommend trying the Money 90 day free trial and purchasing Quicken which has a 60 day money back guarantee, as I did, to see which one works best for you. It can be very frustrating when these programs don't so what you want them to do but there are learning curves and i realize they are not perfect. I am getting used to Money and am learning as I go.
Update March 24, 2006
I backed up Money and did a restore and had to set up my online services again so I would be able to get my updated account information. This did not make any sense to me.
4 of 4 customers found the following review helpful:
Not worth upgrade from previous years..., 2006-02-26
I agree that this software does not provide a significant update to the previous year's version. It may be worth picking up just because it can be obtained for free with certain deals. I have the standard version on one machine and deluxe on the other. I don't believe that deluxe is a significant upgrade for most people either. The functionality of the planning software is unfortunately not that great.
3 of 3 customers found the following review helpful:
Works well - has a few problems, 2006-02-24
I've been using MS Money for quite a few years now and like it, mostly. This version is an improvement over my last (2002) version, but not spectacular. It does what I need it to do and does it well, with the following exceptions:
1. It's hard to get the reports I want. When I find an included report that I want to use, it lets me customize it (that's good), but it saves my changes to the included report (that's bad!!). I should be able to change any report, but then I should have to save it as a different / favorite report. It shouldn't allow me to make changes to the base reports because then I can never go back and use the base report - kind of stupid.
2. The performance with this version is a bit slow. I have a new 2.1 Ghz computer with 1 gigabtye of RAM, but it still takes about 30 seconds to a minute to load on the home page (with the graphics on). It also seems a bit sluggish other times.
3. The budgeting process is very difficult to work with, but with patience, it does the job.
Overall, it does what I want it to do, and is an improvement over my older version, but could certainly use some help in reports and budgeting. It's a better choice for me than Quicken (which also has its problems).
Hopefully, MS makes more substantial changes in the next version.
 Weak display, 2006-02-24
THe screen display for the check register is hard to read and the display cannot be modified. Very primitive by today's standards. Works okay.
11 of 12 customers found the following review helpful:
 Don't buy it. It's a crap and a waste of time., 2006-02-22
Three weeks ago I bought a TaxCut 2006 Delux from Staples, along with Microsoft Mondy 2006 Delux because:
1. It's free after rebates (weekly special from staples)
2. It's Microsoft, the biggest software compay in the world.
3. The feature list on the cover seems very promising. I thought I could manage my finance better with the help of this software.
But........... I was wrong. I wasted 2 whole nights trying to set up my accounts and make it work. Although it's sort of working now, it still have all kinds of issues. The most frustrating issue is the "Money connects to thousands of banks and updates balances automatically, letting you easily stay on top of your finances." feature, which seems very handy and tempting but unfortunately it never ever works as promised. Sometimes it takes forever to update an account, sometimes it prints "update unsuccessful". I have been using it a dozen times so far and it never updated all of my accounts successfully at once. To me, it's such a frustrating tool and it's a waste of time.
I am also a software engineer but I can't imagine how hard it is to implement this feature. I also can't imagine how come Microsoft would release this crap to public. It doesn't seem that Microsoft ever tested it before release. Anyway, at least I learned a few lessons from this experience:
1. Everybody makes crap, even Microsoft.
2. Every software has a list of "amazing" features (at least the designers think so), while it's a totally different case on how the features are implemented. As a user, don't just assume the features work as you expected and will work well.
3. Always read customer reviews of a product before you placed the order. If I read this before (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0009KLGJU/sr=8-1/qid=1140575388/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-4434874-5424810?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance), I would not have wasted my money and time on this crap.
4. Now I understand why people are saying that the only products that Microsoft earns money from is Windows and Office.
BTW: I really wish Amazon would allow users to rate some crap product like this one as "0 star".
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