NOT Impressed with Money 2005

Just updated from Money 2003 Deluxe & Business to Money
2005 Small Business. Can't find any improvements worth
having (for my operation), but lots of backward steps.
The interface is glitchy ... sometimes it works, sometimes
I get odd errors that look almost like an internet
failure. Sometimes even the help menu won't start.
Features I've hoped to see over the years still aren't
there. It seemed to convert my old money file with no
problems, but I've had to abandon online updates. I have
multiple money files (personal, business 1, business
2,etc) and at each banking institution I have a single
online id that accesses all accounts. With this
new "improvement", you can no long select the accounts you
want to download into a money file. It hits the bank and
downloads all of them. In one case, I have 7 accounts at
an institution and it downloads all seven of them into
each money file. The balance sheet looks great, but its a
LIE. A MAJOR MAJOR backward step. Makes Quicken look
more promising all the time.

I saw an article in the Wall Street Journal last week
(section II, front page) that pretty much said "Buy
Apple ... Use Mozilla ... if its Microsoft run from
it" ..... HMMMMMM.

Vadim
Fri Sep 24 09:49:03 CDT 2004

Hello Danny:

I am in the same situation. I opened support incident with Microsoft, and
insisted that it is escalated to the people who would at least understand
what I'm talking about (the initial response was "it's your bank's fault").
Finally, they responded that there's no solution, but the issue is forwarded
to product group which will be looking into it.

Given, however, the known pattern of Microsoft to address the issues in
proportion to the number of affected users, it would greatly help if you did
the same - opened a free support incident at support.microsoft.com and
followed up with it.

Vadim

You wrote on Mon, 20 Sep 2004 08:05:11 -0700:

DG> Just updated from Money 2003 Deluxe & Business to Money
DG> 2005 Small Business. Can't find any improvements worth
DG> having (for my operation), but lots of backward steps.
DG> The interface is glitchy ... sometimes it works, sometimes
DG> I get odd errors that look almost like an internet
DG> failure. Sometimes even the help menu won't start.
DG> Features I've hoped to see over the years still aren't
DG> there. It seemed to convert my old money file with no
DG> problems, but I've had to abandon online updates. I have
DG> multiple money files (personal, business 1, business
DG> 2,etc) and at each banking institution I have a single
DG> online id that accesses all accounts. With this
DG> new "improvement", you can no long select the accounts you
DG> want to download into a money file. It hits the bank and
DG> downloads all of them. In one case, I have 7 accounts at
DG> an institution and it downloads all seven of them into
DG> each money file. The balance sheet looks great, but its a
DG> LIE. A MAJOR MAJOR backward step. Makes Quicken look
DG> more promising all the time.

DG> I saw an article in the Wall Street Journal last week
DG> (section II, front page) that pretty much said "Buy
DG> Apple ... Use Mozilla ... if its Microsoft run from
DG> it" ..... HMMMMMM.

With best regards, Vadim Rapp. E-mail: vrapp@nospam.polyscience.com