Anyone switch From Microsoft Money?

[PSS]

I've been using Microsoft Money Plus for many years which has been discontinued by Microsoft. I use it to keep track of my bills and downloading statements from my creditcard/banking accounts.

I'm not clear what microsoft means when it says "On Jan. 31, 2011, all online services and assisted support for all versions of Money end" but now might be a good time to buy a quicken product if I get a deal with tax software.

Is quicken deluxe the route to go?

 

[HyundaiGuy]

I switched from MS Money a couple of years ago when I switched from Windows to OSX. Although Quicken for Mac has poor online reviews, it fits my needs perfectly.

 

[JHZR2]

I used quicken in the past but found moneydance to be a good deal. My only complaint is the mortgage amortization setup isn't as good, but since I pay mine each month, it is easy to just track cash-flow and do an amortization in excel.

 

[Carbon]

http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/money/threads?ppud=4 has lots of discussions of alternatives.

 

[barlowc]

I'm still using Money 2005 Standard Edition. I don't use any of the online services, importing from my bank or credit cards, or anything like that. It's all a manual entry/reconciliation process for me and that's the way I like it. I've been using Money for 10 years and have enough data in it that I won't be switching until I have a need to do so.

 

[SrDriver]

I use gnucash under linux.

Free and works fine.

There is a Windows and MAC O/S version too.

Link To Web Site

 

[Tom NJ]

Been using Quicken for 16 years and love it.

Tom NJ

 

[barlowc]

Mint.com is supposed to be good. Strangely, it's an Intuit company and Intuit makes Quicken.

 

[lyle]

My version of money is 2.0a, copyrighted 1991! I think I got a free copy with Windows 3.0!

I like using this as all I do is keep balances on all my accounts. It is also very easy to use, and it's all contained in one folder, no more loading files in this directory or that directory or spreading dll's across the whole hard drive. In fact, I keep it all on one small USB stick and can usually run it from any 32-bit OS. I have had problems running it on 64-bit Win7, but after I add the Windows XP virtual mode, I have no problems.

Total program folder size including 15 years worth of archives is 5.5MB, and that's for the complete program!

 

[tmorris1]

Originally Posted By: barlowc
Mint.com is supposed to be good. Strangely, it's an Intuit company and Intuit makes Quicken.

Intuit bought Mint.com.

Quicken works great.

 

[Virtuoso]

And I thought we'd be the old-schooler's - We're still using Money '98. We tried a newer version but found it too bloated for what it's used for.

Never heard anything bad about Quicken though - I guess it's whatever your used to. If it was me, I'd continue to use what you have until it no longer works for you. It should still function properly even without Micro$oft's support.

 

[crinkles]

Went from perfectly good spreadsheet, to Using MOneydance (actually paid for it), was OK with excellent support, but couldn't handle many finicky things that had slight variances from general stocks (e.g. mutual funds, crediting rates, etc). they had excellent support but after a while i had to use a workaround for just about every investment I had, which defeats the purpose of the programme,. their budgeting tools also suck.

So I'm back to my trusty spreadsheet and excel functions and it gives me all the power I need.

 

[Touring5]

I switched from Money to Quicken about 10 years ago, and it was a definite improvement at that time. However, the " will stop working on xx date so you have to buy the new version" is something Quicken does too. When it happened a few years ago they claimed it was due to the fact that banks had changed to a new protocol and the existing (2003 maybe) version wasn't compatible [of course they couldn't patch or upgrade those old versions]. So I was forced to upgrade to 2008 version, which was more cumbersome, with functionality modified. Now that I've gotten that version configured and am fully comfortable, I get the popup that the product is only good for 3 years and I need to upgrade to 2011 if I want to retain online capability.

What really annoys me about this is if they want an ongoing revenue stream, just make me pay for a license renewal and let me keep running the version I am comfortable with, instead I have to battle all the malarkey useless (to me) improvements that are added to the new version.

I tried Moneydance and after importing my data from quicken, would go online and then have duplicate transactions for my banking data. Also for some reason it couldn't connect to Mastercard account (Discover works fine) indicating that the password was wrong (I confirmed it was correct0) - this was a PITA because after two "failed" logins my credit card would disable the login and I'd have to call India to get it re-enabled.

I'll reluctantly upgrade Quicken, but overall I'm not a satisfied customer (read: given a viable alternative I'll abandon them ASAP).

 

[barlowc]

As a Money 2005 user, this thread got me to thinking and researching a bit. Quicken would have been the knee-jerk reaction if I were to change, assuming that it'd import my Money data. But it looks like Quicken will only import Money 2007 or 2008, which doesn't do me any good. I think I've come to the conclusion that if I'm going to make a change, I'll give Mint.com a try. But given the effort it'll take, I'm probably going to stick with my Money for a while longer.