Comments on: Replacing Microsoft Money, Part 2: Quicken

By: mark

mark — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 03:13:24 +0000

I left quicken after years of using their product when their support people suggested MS-Money. Quicken would not talk to me about a printing problem because I did no purchase my checks from them. So after giving them my money for so long, I took their advice and switched to Microsoft Money… unlike a lot of people I appreciate that Microsoft helped computer users. I remember when each sound card, video card etc only kinda worked on the hardware I had. But back to the issue.

Has anyone asked Microsoft to turn MSmoney over to the support team, sell it for a $1. to them or something. Its been a good product, not perfect. But I keep hoping someone will convince MS to let them take the product and run with it. I don’t see a downside to Microsoft.

I have 15 trust, 4 businesses and several personal accounts all in separate MSMoney Logon on’s (Uncle Sam(IRS) has this thing about co mingled files) . Lots and lots of sub accounts in each MS Money file… but I would go back to paper before going back to quicken. Bad product, Bad support and the most attitude of any software company; much worse support than any MS product.

So the Gnu or Moneydance will both get a trial run to see how they do… I like features of both.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:39:31 +0000

Thank you very much for this info and for your research! I have only just discovered that Money is not going to be supported by Microsoft any longer having just renewed my PC and I only found this out when I failed to be able to transfer all my data on to my new machine – sooooo frustrating.

I will now look at Quicken as an alternative solution but it seems as if I will need to buy a version between 2004 and 2008 in order for the data to transfer properly and all 2008 versions are currently out of stock on Amazon!

Aaaaah – will I ever resolve this? )

Thanks anyway for all this info – much appreciated!

Jennifer

By: Donald Sterling

Donald Sterling — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:59:45 +0000

I am just a typical home user using MS Money to keep up with bills, transfers, and deposits and find this much harder in Quicken. Am learning slowly since I figure MS Money will quit working soon due to changing hardware and opeating systems. Have tried a few of the other ’suggested replacements’ and find most to be lacking in areas I use daily. Quicken will most likely be the one I use the most after I turn off a few of the features. Too bad Microsoft doesn’t appear to appreciate the everyday user.

By: RobertSeattle

RobertSeattle — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:48:05 +0000

One incredibily annoying thing about Quicken (US Version) is that it won’t let me import Quicken data from a Canadian financial institution. I guess the geniuses at Intuit think I should run the USA version of Quicken and a Canadian version of Quicken on the same machine.

By: Raghu

Raghu — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 21:46:57 +0000

I was looking to get into Quicken. It would cost $9.95 per month to use Direct Connect with Bank of America. It’s not wort spending that money, when Minit.com, Yodle, Quicken Online give that for free.

By: TFB

TFB — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 03:52:08 +0000

TIE – If you only want to post projected transactions automatically on a schedule, these applications can all do that. I think you will like GnuCash. It’s clean, flexible, and free. The review will be up tomorrow.

By: TFB

TFB — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:40:48 +0000

Thank you for the comments about online services. Please see my reply in the comments to the previous post.

By: TH

TH — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:07:12 +0000

pop, I’m with you . I threw out Quicken after a few weeks of mint.com. There’s no compelling reason to be old school about where the data is kept, given Mint’s privacy policies:
* Bank-level security for data. If they aren’t safe, neither is your bank.
* You can’t move money
* You register anonymously

By: TFB

TFB — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:35:44 +0000

Frank – Sorry for not giving so much of a review. Intuit does not give a free trial for Quicken unless you pay and then ask for a refund. Quicken has been around for so long and it’s been written up so many times in books and magazines everywhere. I will not be able to add anything beyond what others already wrote, except for saying I *don’t want to* use Quicken unless I have to, because Intuit’s sunset policy is the same as Microsoft’s.

By: Frank

Frank — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:05:12 +0000

>> I’m pretty sure Quicken can do everything I do in Microsoft Money

That’s it? Not much of a review….