Me: I live in Silicon Valley with my wife, child and cat. I have worked at Microsoft since I graduated from College, both in the Macintosh Business Unit on products such as Outlook Express, Entourage, IE, and Virtual PC and in Windows Live on Hotmail, Calendar and People. I am currently a Principal Lead Program Manager on the Windows Live Social Networking team. I basically manage a team of Program Managers responsible for delivering features to support our web and client applications. I've been blogging since 2001 and like to play around with .NET in my spare time working on projects such as dasBlog (the blog that powers this site) and Send to SmugMug (an application for uploading photos to SmugMug). I blog about a number of technology and productivity related topics.
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This morning Money greeted me with a message saying there was a new update available (Money Plus RC3). However, every attempt to update resulted in a CRASH. Sound familiar?
Turns out the fix was to launch Money Plus as an Administrator (right click on the Money Plus and select Run as Administrator).
You know, I've been wondering. With the change of Money Plus naming from the Money YYYY format I wonder if we are witnessing the end of development for this software. No more yearly updates.... I mean what will they call the next version? Money Plus 2009? I don't think so.
I've been using Wesabe side by side with Money now for a few weeks. It's not much more effort. Wesabe is a fun product to use, but it needs a lot more features before I can switch to it, but I think I've decided that this is going to be the plan moving forward. The Wesabe folks are all over the blogesphere commenting on any post about Wesabe which indicates to me that they care a lot about the success of their product. Money team? No blog, only the usenet group and some MVPs answering posts. Right now I use the Wesabe Uploader to download all my bank transactions into Wesabe via their OFX interfaces. It's a bit of a hassle since I do this on 2 computers and each one has to be configured separately. There are also some bugs with the uploader on Vista (it won't quit, and there are some redraw issues).
Anyway, back to updating Money.
PS - the whole notion of "updating software" is a PITA. I mean, why are we forced to manually install updates? Why can't our client applications act like web services. I want the latest bits 100% of the time and I don't want to apply patches and updates to 3 different computers. What a headache. It's ever worse for programs like Messenger that have hooks into Outlook and Internet Explorer and require that I quit everything I am doing just to updated... and usually reboot. Sheesh.