Major
Fri Feb 20 18:47:30 CST 2004
"Shelly" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1351901c3f7fd$5d1b90a0$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> For those of you waiting for MSFT to "fix" the problem it
> has created with Money 2002, you are likely out of luck.
> 99% of Money 2002 users got it as a "FREE DEMO VERSION"
> which came with their computers.
>
> It is highly unlikely that MSFT plans to offer any way to
> reactivate the product, since they shut it down. Do you
> REALLY think this was an accident? Not.
>
> My adivice...buy Quicken. Or anything else that doesn't
> come from MSFT. I found a truly free (freeware) product
> called Ace Money Lite that I plan to use. Of course I only
> need checkbook record and statement balancing features.
> For those of you who have complicated financial needs
> Quicken is still probably the best choice.
>
> I will NEVER buy another MSFT product. EVER.
I don't know about not buying *any* Microsoft product, but I've never been
happy with MS Money. BTW, my version of Money 2002 is still working fine,
thank you. As much as I don't like Money, I've never been unhappy enough to
switch. All I use it for is to track stock quotes. I don't use it for
banking, finance tracking or anything else. My gripes have all been with the
stock reporting functions: I can't always assign assets to their proper
classes as I classify my assets differently than the classes in MS Money. MS
Money also does not track bonds the way I'd like them to be tracked. I have
to play too many games to get the correct buy price balanced against the
number of shares.
Except for daily price tracking, it's all moot anyway: the brokerages I use
supply very nice monthly and quarterly statements plus I get on demand asset
allocation charts from them. I determine my asset allocation goals, not some
program. I wasted money on the program, but I learned a lot: I don't need
these functions anyway.