Re: Microsoft Money: suddenly canceled after 18 years

On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:51:20 -0400, Jim Higgins
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On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:55:18 -0400, Jim Higgins
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Lawrence Akutagawa wrote:
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Microsoft Money: suddenly canceled after 18 years
http://tinyurl.com/mrb4x2

Microsoft abruptly announced Wednesday it would stop selling its
highly
regarded personal finance software, Microsoft Money at the end of the
month.

Since 1991, Microsoft Money has been the one significant competitor
with
Intuit's Quicken software. Quicken and Money gave computer users an
easy
way to ditch pencil and paper to balance their checkbooks and track
their
stock portfolios. The online banking segment of the software
industry was
so promising at one point, Microsoft attempted to buy Intuit in a 1995
deal that was scuttled by antitrust regulators.

/snip - read the linked article/
.
Clearly - clearly - Microsoft Money was/is not making enough money for
Microsoft.

[sorry - just couldn't resist....]



Not only do I use Quicken but I left the Dark Side and went to a Mac
rather than use Vista. Microsoft-the company you love to hate (with
reason).

I use Vista. What's to hate?



I use Vista also. Have had few or no problems with it.


For me it was the Vista horror stories I was hearing and reading about.
Initially I was looking at an HP laptop with XP Home verses an Apple
MacBook Pro and felt that the Apple was rather overpriced. Time passed
as I looked into the HP and talked with family about their Apple
experiences. A bit more time and I came around to the idea that money
on the Apple would be money well spent for the long haul and made the
leap from the Dark Side to a new OS. The transition was a scary two
weeks ("What have I gone and done???") but it passed.

In my case Vista scared me off to Mac OS X, I just did not want to roll
the dice on Vista.

Relax. Don't believe everything you read. Vista is ok. Microsoft
tightened up the rules (entirely appropriate) and some old
software/drivers ceased to work. Not a big deal. Vista is a good OS.
Windows 7 will be even better. I'm not a Mac user, but by all
accounts, it's ok too. Your big advantage with the Mac is that there
are relatively few Mac users, so the crooks don't write worms and
viruses to go after your machine. That's not a flaw of Vista, but it
is an advantage for the Mac.
.

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