PC Magazine Prefers Quicken 07 over Money 07

Sept 19 issue of PC Magazine says "Quicken has the edge" over Money.

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Read back for the past 10 years or so and basically, it's always a toss up with given the nod. More often or not, it comes down to very little reason to switch and some reason to upgrade.

Regards, Hank Arnold

Arnie Goetchius wrote:

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PC World always likes Quicken a bit more than Money too - and so do I. I make a living reviewing financial software and writing Quicken and Microsoft Money tutorials and I always find that Quicken to be a bit more robust in features than Money. I try to be objective when I write reviews, but I am really tired of the advertising and other web content that Money forces on the user as well as the minor quirks . I am going to update my review of Money 07 to mention the ads as this is really getting on my nerves.

I probably don't need to say that Money is not my choice for my own personal finance software. ;-)

Shelley

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I was about to make the switch to Money 2007 given the free trial from MS, gave it a whirl.

It converted my files nicely and I was set into the Money menu systems. I had much relearning to do.

Then a shock, I needed to register with the online Live ID, and there was no way around it. This single un/pw was used to allow online transactions, and although I still used individual account access, this un/pw tied all my accounts together.

In Quicken, using Quicken.com is optional and can have nothing to do with online transactions. Each account goes through the net individually, not through a 'single style' service. I do not know if this is a proxy of a sort, but didn't care to further investigate. MS restates that privacy is a vital concern, so not to worry.

Further, Money is tightly integrated with the Internet, so it needs to go out now and then to do something, why I know not, for example the help files are online. I can track its requests with ZoneAlarm, whereas Quicken is more client server based, and until you need to, does nothing on the net without some notification its going to.

I got a hold of Quicken 2007 and found it far easier to use, and no brainer upgrade. Its probably the best version of Quicken since the DOS version in the late 1980s and seems to work nicely with the fewest gotchas of all prior QUicken's I've used [ I've been with them since

1987].

Lastly, MS has a 2 year software update cycle versus 3 years with Quicken.

Adios, Money.

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