I'm seriously looking at an alternative to upgrading to MS Money 2005 due
to this group's comments on the product. I started looking at MSN Money at
http://moneycentral.msn.com which appears
at first glance to be a complete web-based version of MS Money 200x. Is
this true? Does anyone have any experience using this portal as a
complete standalone financial management tool?

I know the cons would be that the data is not located on my PC but in some
MS data wharehouse, but that doesn't bother me. I'm cursious if this
portal has all of the payees, categories, accounts and robustness of MS
Money for a PC. I tried looking for some help and couldn't find it and
didn't want to create an account so I don't screw up my current
information in Money 2002.

Any feedback would be great. Also, what about costs? Is this portal
absolutely free considering I don't make any trades or purchase credit
reports, etc? Also, can I completely upload my data in my M02 *.mny file
to this portal?

Thanks,
Bob

Re: MSN Money feedback by Glyn

Glyn
Mon Jan 03 13:03:30 CST 2005

Why do you want to upgrade? If you're happy with 2002, then i'd stick with
it. You don't have the online services policy to worry about on that
version.

--
Glyn Simpson, Microsoft MVP - Money
http://money.mvps.org

Check http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;EN-GB;mny or
http://money.mvps.org/faq for UK tips and fixes for MS Money. To send
Microsoft your product wishes see http://money.mvps.org/wishes.aspx

I do not respond to any unsolicited email regarding Money
"Robert G. Becnel" <gotigers@ganymede.jtan.com> wrote in message
news:Pine.BSO.4.53.0501022015370.4289@ganymede.jtan.com...
>
> I'm seriously looking at an alternative to upgrading to MS Money 2005 due
> to this group's comments on the product. I started looking at MSN Money
> at
> http://moneycentral.msn.com which appears
> at first glance to be a complete web-based version of MS Money 200x. Is
> this true? Does anyone have any experience using this portal as a
> complete standalone financial management tool?
>
> I know the cons would be that the data is not located on my PC but in some
> MS data wharehouse, but that doesn't bother me. I'm cursious if this
> portal has all of the payees, categories, accounts and robustness of MS
> Money for a PC. I tried looking for some help and couldn't find it and
> didn't want to create an account so I don't screw up my current
> information in Money 2002.
>
> Any feedback would be great. Also, what about costs? Is this portal
> absolutely free considering I don't make any trades or purchase credit
> reports, etc? Also, can I completely upload my data in my M02 *.mny file
> to this portal?
>
> Thanks,
> Bob



Re: MSN Money feedback by Robert

Robert
Mon Jan 03 13:36:34 CST 2005


I really never looked at using a standalone web version of MS Money until
now. I like the fact that my data is backed up real time and offsite and
that I don't have to worry about a hard drive crash or something stupid
corrcupting my 27MB *.mny file. I would get that with the MSN version.
However, I'm not sure if all of the same features that are in the PC
version are in the web version.

Bob


> Why do you want to upgrade? If you're happy with 2002, then i'd stick with
> it. You don't have the online services policy to worry about on that
> version.
>
> --
> Glyn Simpson, Microsoft MVP - Money
> http://money.mvps.org
>
> Check http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;EN-GB;mny or
> http://money.mvps.org/faq for UK tips and fixes for MS Money. To send
> Microsoft your product wishes see http://money.mvps.org/wishes.aspx
>
> I do not respond to any unsolicited email regarding Money
> "Robert G. Becnel" <gotigers@ganymede.jtan.com> wrote in message
> news:Pine.BSO.4.53.0501022015370.4289@ganymede.jtan.com...
> >
> > I'm seriously looking at an alternative to upgrading to MS Money 2005 due
> > to this group's comments on the product. I started looking at MSN Money
> > at
> > http://moneycentral.msn.com which appears
> > at first glance to be a complete web-based version of MS Money 200x. Is
> > this true? Does anyone have any experience using this portal as a
> > complete standalone financial management tool?
> >
> > I know the cons would be that the data is not located on my PC but in some
> > MS data wharehouse, but that doesn't bother me. I'm cursious if this
> > portal has all of the payees, categories, accounts and robustness of MS
> > Money for a PC. I tried looking for some help and couldn't find it and
> > didn't want to create an account so I don't screw up my current
> > information in Money 2002.
> >
> > Any feedback would be great. Also, what about costs? Is this portal
> > absolutely free considering I don't make any trades or purchase credit
> > reports, etc? Also, can I completely upload my data in my M02 *.mny file
> > to this portal?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Bob
>
>
>

Re: MSN Money feedback by Dick

Dick
Mon Jan 03 17:08:55 CST 2005

At least not the explicit one in the EULA. There probably is an implicit one
as the people downloading quotes from M97 found out last year--when
Microsoft breaks it, they won't care to fix it.

"Glyn Simpson, MVP" <glyn@serf.org> wrote in message
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> ...You don't have the online services policy to worry about on that
> version...