Why I'm not switching to Money 2007

Mark Horn

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Oct 15, 2006, 9:11:29 AM10/15/06

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After having used Money 2007 (M07) for a couple of weeks, I have
decided to stick to Money 2004 (M04). I'm posting my reasoning
here for two purposes. First, so that others who are more familiar
with M07 might suggest workarounds or fixes. Second, to share my
experiences with others who might be contemplating a simlar decision.

First things first. Here's why I didn't switch to Money 2006:

* Joint accounts created a problem with Net Worth reports when
doing direct transaction D/L's

* S...L...O... I'd write the W but I'm pretty sure that M06 isn't
finished with it yet.

Both of these issues appear to be resolved in M07 but I'm still
not upgrading from M04. Here's why:

* After finishing a transaction DL from my FI's, I can't accept the
new transactions for a long time without getting an error message:
"You cannot perform this operation right now. There is an online
operation in progress. Try again later." This causes M07 to
be effectively a *LOT* slower than M04, even though much of its
responsiveness is comparable to or faster than M04. It has taken
as long as 15 minutes before I can actually accept downloads.
This is a new problem that is entirely too frustrating to put
up with for another year.

* The license terms for "online services" in M07 say that they
can expire at any time. Upgrading does not necessarily buy me
any more time from my current "Sept 1, 2007" expiration in M04.

Here are the features of M07 that I find compelling. I hope that
the above issues will be addressed in M08 and that these features
will remain:

* Multiple backups (introduced in M06 I think)

* Smaller file size

* Ability to select multiple billpays at once and submit them at
the same time. This can be approximated in M04 by going through
each item and "saving as draft" and then submitting all at
same time. But it's not the same. The new feature in M07 is
very nice.

* Shutdown of M07 is much faster than shutdown of M04. If I ask
M07 to skip backup, it shuts down rather quickly. M04 takes
a while. Some of this is an illusion as M07 still is running
in the background.

If I ran my trial of M07 longer, I'm sure that I could increase
both of the above lists. Here's hoping for M08.

Tony Linguini

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Oct 15, 2006, 12:24:29 PM10/15/06

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Same reasons I'm still running M05. To add: I REALLY don't like deceitful
force to keeping my records on MSN.
Also praying for "what customers want" in M08.
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Mark Horn

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Oct 15, 2006, 12:44:08 PM10/15/06

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On 2006-10-15, Tony Linguini <tonyli...@nospam.inland.com> wrote:
> Same reasons I'm still running M05. To add: I REALLY don't like deceitful
> force to keeping my records on MSN.
> Also praying for "what customers want" in M08.

I don't disagree with this, but wasn't that feature introduced in
M05 with the use of Yodlee?

Tony Linguini

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Oct 15, 2006, 2:58:28 PM10/15/06

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Yes, but at least I can still get ONLY ONE main bank the old way, and all
others are manual.

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Robert

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Oct 16, 2006, 4:28:01 PM10/16/06

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Here's why I'm not switching to Money 2007 - no Pocket Money 2007.

Mark Horn

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Oct 17, 2006, 1:11:32 PM10/17/06

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On 2006-10-16, Robert <Rob...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> Here's why I'm not switching to Money 2007 - no Pocket Money 2007.

Oh yeah, that's another reason. Ultrasoft hasn't released support
for M07 yet on it's PalmOS based software. But I assume that's
coming soon.