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Money Plus Deluxe Review
User Submitted Money Plus Deluxe Reviews
Date: 2008-10-30
MS Money Pluse Deluxe
I bought a copy of MS Money 2000 used, and liked it for the last few years, although the reports were not easy to build, so I tried this newer version, and like the revamped interface.
Date: 2008-09-03
Crashes every time!
I, too, was faced with the expiration of Money 2006 online services and needed to upgrade. I downloaded the trial version of Money Plus Deluxe and have tried multiple times to install it, but it crashes every time I try to launch it. After fighting with it for a couple hours I gave up and re-installed 2006 again, which is working perfectly, except of course for the lack of online services. Not sure what to do. (Running XP SP2 on a Dell Precision M20)
Date: 2008-08-08
Microsoft Money Plus Deluxe Stinks!
I, too, owned Microsoft Money 2004. Never had a problem with it. Then, lately, it's been acting kind of buggy so I thought, what the heck, I'll buy the latest version.
I purchased the download version of Money Plus Deluxe from Microsoft. Although it imported the Money 2004 files flawlessly, it also made it impossible to ever view those files again with Money 2004. If you try to uninstall Money Plus Deluxe (with the intention of re-installing Money 2004), you get a little message that says, in effect, "you won't be able to read your Money files (even the ones you might have backed up using Money 2004) with versions of Money that pre-date Money Plus Deluxe." Nice, huh?
Well, the program works fine except ... EVERY time I close it I get this message: "Microsoft Money has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience."
I emailed Microsoft support with all the pertinent information, including all the error reports. They sent me back a link with an article in MS's "knowledge base." Didn't work; sent another email to MS. Got another article link. Didn't work and didn't even address my problem. Told MS this; got another article link that wasn't germane to my problem. MS wrote back that I should try removing XP's Service Pack 3 from from my computer.
I'd heard enough! I requested and received a refund from Microsoft.
I purchased Quicken Deluxe 2008 because Intuit's web site said it could import MS Money Plus Deluxe files. Guess what? It can't! Research Intuit's troubleshooting tips and you'll find that they admit that there's a "problem." So back goes Quicken to the store today.
I tried some other finance programs you can download (free or for a fee) from the Internet, including GnuCash and AceMoney. Don't bother. When they import the Money files, you get duplicates, negative balances, and all sorts of other problems.
So I'm going to stick with MS Money Plus Deluxe. If the only problem is receiving an error message every time it closes, I guess I should count myself lucky. And I'll keep sending Microsoft the error report it requests and perhaps they'll do something about it in the future.
Date: 2008-08-06
Nothing but trouble
I "upgraded" to Money Plus Deluxe from 2004 and I have had nothing but trouble. Data files get corrupt, so I had to recreate everything, application crashed occasionally, updates from banks are spotty at best. What a horrible application. I have never tried Quicken, but it looks like I am headed that way.
Date: 2008-08-04
This is probably the worst piece of software I have ever bought
I have used Money for at least 10 years to manage both my personal finances and my investments. I originally switched from Quicken because Money offered me the ability to get updated prices for my investments. I loved Money 1998 and was OK with Money 2002, which I have used for the last six years. Everything was fine until I decided to upgrade. I first tried Money 2004 because I got it for a good price. Unfortunately, after I updated I found out that Microsoft no longer allows Money 2004 to update quotes- they required an upgrade to the 2008 version. I was not happy about this, but one of the insidious things Microsoft does is to prevent you from switching back once you have decided to upgrade- the upgraded files are no longer backwards compatible so any work done with the upgraded file cannot be opened with an earlier version of Money. So I pretty much had to upgrade again if I wanted to update the prices of my investments. I then bought Money Plus Deluxe 2008 which is a disaster. It is extremely slow, it crashes frequently, it does not remove itself from memory when shut down, and worst of all, saved my backup files with a mystery password so that they are useless (stay away from Microsoft Live ID). And, to top it off, it still does not allow me to update quotes, saying that my subscription to Microsoft online services has expired. After numerous hours on the phone with support (and uninstalling the program, sniffing around in the registry for traces of the "uninstalled" program, then reinstalling it with an "override key" obtained from another Microsoft number) I finally gave up and asked for my money back. I've gone back to Money 2002. Although I lost some work, it is easier to redo it than to deal with this abomination of a program. I guess Microsoft cannot make enough money by making good software, so they try to force people to buy their services. Their software gets more and more bloated and less and less useful. Is this a sustainable business model? I think they are doomed.
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