Microsoft Money 2006 Deluxe [OLD VERSION]
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Software Reviews of Microsoft Money 2006 Deluxe [OLD VERSION]
Customer Review: Quicken or Money?
Summary: 2 Stars
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.
Customer Review: Worst Money version ever
Summary: 1 Stars
The minimum rating is 1 star, but it doesn't deserve it. I have been a Microsoft Money user since 1998, and always preferred it to Quicken. Currently I'm using 2004 Deluxe, and will stay on it for a while - trying the new 2006 version literally made me sick... I did not find any new features or improvements compare to 2004, but a lot of things got worse. More space is occupied by 4-level toolbars (menu + 3 toolbars) at the top leaving less space on the screen for useful information. The home page layout could not be customized the same way as before, and every section of the home page is 5 times bigger then in 2004 version - so instead of being able to see all I want on one page I have to scroll 2 or 3 screens down. I used to have 4 columns on my home page (it was dependend on your screen resolution), and now it is fixed at 2. Even if you turn off advertisement and shopping links in the settings, the ads are everywhere - you really feel like you are using some free service supported by advertisers - what do I pay my money for then??? And it tried to add something to my trusted web sites list - no matter what it is I do not like when application is messing around with my internet settings without letting me know about that!
Finally, the new version is much slower then 2004. I do not see why should it be, considering that there is no new functionality.
Customer Review: This program SUCKS...but so do the others
Summary: 1 Stars
I was a MS Money user in 1998 and got away from it. Now I'm in a position where I can use it again, so I picked up a copy...What a pain in the S!
- The "budget" and the Bill paymet function are linked! Wanna do a "cash flow analysis?" Good luck! The linking causes the Cash flow to get all messed up (unless you turn one or the other off..I still cant get them BOTH right.
- You may think that a direct conenct to your bank is a good thing....NOT! Everything works fine until I set up a payment for next week (my payday, btw). MS Money shows a debit TODAY in the register!!! Debit isnt set up for 3 onths? TOO BAD...register reflects the debit TODAY!!
- Program cant do BASIC MATH!!!! I have a coupla mutual funds... Lets see if this is too complicated for YOU, cuz it sure is for MS Money 2006!!! 40.315 shares x $69.893 per share ($2,817.74) next is 82.367 shares x $36.005 per share ($2965.62) MSM agress with that part...add them together and...$5,783.26 (in the REAL world) in MSM world it's...$5,964.16!! Those are the ONLY transactions in the account!! WTF!?!?! I knew MS was bad but BASIC ARITHMETIC!?!?!?!
- Here's another...my bank connects and interfaces with MSM (see above) but I have to pay $9.95 per month! (ok, it's free for now, but bet yer S I'm dumping it when it's not).
So what do I have? A medicore check register...I think I can do better with an abacus!
If youre even thinking about buying this product, first put DOWN the crack pipe...but if you INSIST, just get the standard...dont waste your money on the deluxe features wich either suck or dont work anyways.
Customer Review: Problems updating investment prices
Summary: 1 Stars
Microsoft has been experiencing problems updating the prices of most non-US Funds, and these have not been resolved despite lengthy discussions on microsoft newsgroups. At the time of writing, pretty much all non-US Funds are not being recognised by Microsoft Money and are therefore being ascribed a nil value in portfolios. This leads to very misleading results and makes the product of very limited use if you wanted to use it to track your investments and you would do better to look for a different product than this one.
Customer Review: MS should be ashamed
Summary: 1 Stars
This is incredibly bad SW. Aside from problems downloading data from banks, the user interface is inexcusable! I never made it past trying to set up accounts (succeeded with some, failed with others, no idea why) and categorize transactions and review charts. I never could get it to download 401K or credit card data. The final straw was all the stupid dialogs that aren't wide enough to see either the whole account description or transaction description and can't be resized. Forget making it to separate budgets for different accounts. Returned for refund.