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7 of 7 customers found the following review helpful:
 Worst Money ever, 2006-02-16
I've used MS Money for five years now, and have faithfully upgraded each year--only because of the great deal I've gotten each year with the purchase of tax software. I expect that with each upgrade there will be some minor transition issues as the updated software interfaces with my on-line banks. However, this upgrade is by far the worst ever. Last weekend I spent an hour redoing about 3 months worth of bank statements, as Money would import the same transactions three or four times each time it connected to the bank. Thinking I had finally gotten everything correctly synched, I closed and restarted, only to find that the same problem has occurred yet again.
In short, DO NOT UPGRADE!
12 of 12 customers found the following review helpful:
 Do not believe MS Money 2006, 2006-02-14
Reviewed all other reviews re MS money but since I'm Microsoft certified for 8 years and live with their software daily etc... have ignored bad reviews. However after hours of trying to setup online bill pay...and hours on the phone with MS, I have learned that the online bill pay has been disabled and no longer works. This applies to all Money 2006 products. Call before you buy to see what else may be wrong in their advertising*****...MS Money 2006 online bill pay does not work.... save your time and buy something else.....this software sucks................ I must add that they told me they can refund your money hopefully before June but no guarantees.....
8 of 8 customers found the following review helpful:
 Not bad, but sure not great, 2006-02-06
Well, after reading reviews I decided to download the trial version before buying. I'm an old Parson's Technology MoneyCounts user that reluctantly moved to Quicken when Intuit bought MoneyCounts. I have difficulty with the way Intuit does business after using TurboTax this year. My experience with all their products has been going downhill. I thought MS Money might be the solution. It does have some features that I really like better, and it affords a lot more flexibility than Quicken, not forcing you to use the blind accounts that Quicken sets up for 401(k), investments, etc. After several tries, I was able to import, but it seems to work best using a backup file. However, many transactions did not import properly. Fortunately, it's early enough in the year that I was able to clean up the current year, and I pretty much ignored past years, so prior to 2006 there are a huge number of transactions sitting in uncatagorized accounts. I'm going to run this in parallel for a month or two, but my guess is I'll reluctantly stick with Quicken. If you're not an accountant, either product is probably fine, depending on what you want to do with it. The import of banking data is superior in Money, but slower, if you want to record transactions based on when the bank clears them.
5 of 8 customers found the following review helpful:
Run Away!!!, 2006-01-31
Too many problems to list, but a few of the big ones are;
Import of Quicken 2004 data; Completely dropped the Category from thousands of transactions.
Reports - about 50% of the reports just sit and spin with a "Loading" message flashing on the screen - waited overnight just to see if it just needed time - nope same thing in the morning.
Loans - Can't correctly calculate a loan amortization.
Ugh, back to Quicken I guess.
10 of 11 customers found the following review helpful:
Quicken or Money?, 2006-01-31
I have been a user of QuickBooks since the 90's. When I finally went for an upgrade, it really hit home expensive it was for the marginal improvements over plain Quicken. I mean I'd be paying hundreds of dollars and THEN on top of it, Id have to buy some special software module to do the online accounts whereas Quicken had this built in? Ridiculous. I found this infuriating and so I set out to switch everything and I got MS Money 2006.
It turns out that it inherited that same annoying feature that was the halmark of MS Word - it hides what it is doing and when there are errors until there is just some inexplicable quirky behavior and then you have no point of reference as to what might be wrong and you just sit in front of the screen pulling your hair out for hours.
Setup was a breeze and everyting seemed to flow and was so intuitive that I was feeling very good. I set up accounts, imported data THEN I hit the wall. Id go to an account that would say "530 transactions to read" but there would be NOTHING in the register. I spent hours and hours with this ONE problem. I wnt to the website and it dawned on me that this was a data importation problem. This program cannot even import a simple, standard .QIF file without screwing up...and then instead if the programe TELLING you that it is screwing up, it acts like everything is fine but then it just won't let you look at the transactions in your register. The MS website goes into detail about using the data repairing features of the software - I tried it all 10 times and it doesn't work. So what started off as a breeze was rudely interrupted by the fact that MS Money cannot even handle data importation. This is so absolutely absurd to me with all of this technology that something so basic and simple completely ruins their program's funcitonality.
The Fix? I had an old trial version of Quicken 2002 laying around. I loaded it, and imported everything immediately without a single problem. Why can's Microsoft 4 years later duplicate that? I don't know but it has been a week and everything has gone smoothly and quickly with this old Quicken from online setup through loading old data through reconciling and creating reports. Obviously, Quicken has my vote.
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