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Same damn thing here. I used it for about an hour and a half and said "forget this, I'm done" and migrated my old Money file over to a new 2007 one. Now I want my $70 back!

I was very interested in your "take" on Quicken. I've been an MS Money user since Money 99, but have been increasingly discouraged at each update. The system is huge, and it still doesn't allow some of the functions that I truly want. And what gives with the MS Money interactions with Bank of America. This is a major cluster.

What is your experience with Money 2007 versus 2006? Is it worth the upgrade?

Told you. Only I lasted a few months and now I'm trapped. I want Money 95 back.

That matches my experience, too. Money may not be perfect, but it's a breath of fresh air compared to the suckfest that is Quicken.

Which is really bizarre, if you think about it. I mean, I can understand how Microsoft can dump off the bad developers on a peripheral product it hardly cares about, but Quicken is Intuit's core product. Surely they have their best people on it; so are their best people just that bad?

Same experience here too. I actually dished out the money after I read your first post comparing the features between the two. I spent about a week getting everything in Quicken since most of my stuff wouldn't import correctly, and then dropped it about a week later. The UI was just plain horrible. The only nice part about the experience is that Intuit did give me my money back without any hassle.

Same here I had Quicken 2005 and just gave up. I have Money 2006 which came with my computer, I just don't want to deal with starting from scratch.

You got that right. I can tell you from trying to deal with Intuit on a professional basis (having worked with them on a consulting gig) they are tone deaf to the needs of customers. I continue to use Quicken only because my bank, PNC, only offers Quicken sync capabilities - no ability for Money to access their system.

Quicken's odd flicker behavior and advertising laden interface really, really sucks. This used to be a nice application, back in the Windows 3.x days....but it seems like Intuit's developers never learned about the arrival of Windows 95, 98, 2000, Xp.....

Ideally, I'd be willing to pay a monhtly fee to be able to get a decent expense tracker online, so that my wife and I could manage our expenses without depending on the location of the data file. That onestatement online app certainly looks good, but they have been dormant for a long, long time. NetSuite, when it was just NetLedger, used to offer a personal version of its accounting sofware. While it looked like a boring ledger application, it was actually quite useful. I used it for a long time, and loved the fact that I could get to it from any computer connected to the web.

I've been a happy Money user for years. Much better than Quicken.

I wish there was a version of Money for the Mac!!!

There's also Moneydance and GNU Cash that I want to give a try.

Thanks for the quick review.. I have used Money for the past 5 years (still using Money 2002) and every year i download the new trial version - but I still like 2002 the best.. I've been considering moving to Quicken, but I've been afraid of the very things that you brought up.. I'll keep my accounts in Money one more year - lets see what 2008 brings...

See a need, fill a need... lol.

As a software developer (who doesn't use money or quicken, excel all the way), what sorts of functionality would you want? Obviously a way to get data feeds uploaded into your account (quicken/money/csv). What about the stock tracking features in money (I used it for like 10 minutes and said this is too painful)? The expense categorization stuff in money was worthless to me (I simply don't care how much I spent on x, y or z), but I could see how the type a's out there might like it.

I'm just trying to see the benefits to a tool like this? (and since someone mentioned they'd pay money for an online one, I'm all ears LOL!)

At the moment I am using Quicken for the Mac. Like you I couldn't deal with the Windows version. At least the Mac version is pretty snappy. (I'm using Quicken 2005 ... not 2006)

So, if I'm a guy who's never dug into either, and have a copy of Money 2004 and Quicken 2006 lying around -- do I use of them.....or neither?