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You're partially right. I tried both Quicken and Money last year. As a s/w developer, I could immediately see that Money was suffering from years of neglect. I
by psranga 17y ago
You're partially right. I tried both Quicken and Money last year.
As a s/w developer, I could immediately see that Money was suffering from years of neglect. I predicted that it would soon be cancelled and that was one of the reasons I stuck with Quicken (though it too sucks).
Due to the reasons you articulate re: Money's early web focus and my hunch about years of neglect, I think that Money's cancellation had much more to do with internal Microsoft priorities than with the rise of the web finance software companies.
For financial information, I want multi-decade records. With a web startup, I have no assurance that all the time I spend entering and categorizing stuff will pay off if the web guy goes under with my data. With a desktop program, at least I can keep going on for a long time with the old version (I'm still using Quicken 2007).
- niels_olson 17y ago>For financial information, I want multi-decade records. My wife and I have been recording our family finances in MS Money since January 2003. Maybe we hit a sweet spot with Money 2004 but we never saw a compelling reason to upgrade. I have an uncle who similarly is currently using Quicken from something rediculous, like 1999. The value of the records now, the ability to look back at how various changes (births, moves, Katrina, etc) affected our savings and spending has been unbelievably helpful not only in terms of making informed decisions about the future, but also preventing fights about finances. As an aside, the other major source of friction has historically revolved around schedules, and Google Calendar is awesome for that. A very useful decision, I think, was giving each other write permission to each others schedules.