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| Microsoft Money Premium 2004 | 
 enlarge | List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $3.92
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (based on 18 reviews)
Sales Rank: 945
Category: Software
Publisher: Microsoft Software
Studio: Microsoft Software
Brand: Microsoft
Label: Microsoft Software
Format: Cd-rom
Platform: Windows Xp
Media: CD-ROM
Autographed: 0
Memorabilia: 0
Batteries Included: 0
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0.1 x 0.1
MPN: 100722
Model: 805529401235
UPC: 805529345775
EAN: 0805529401235
ASIN: B00009L1HO
Release Date: February 17, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Easily download checking, credit card and other transactions from your bank automatically, for up-to-date information | | • | Consolidate your financial information for an accurate overall view of your business' health | | • | Optimize your investments with the automatic trade decision tools | | • | Maximize tax-savings opportunities and handle IRS Schedule D reporting with a click | | • | Get year-round capital gain or loss calculations |
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Product Description
Microsoft Money 2004 Premium has all the tools you need to manage every aspect of your small business! Includes a variety of complimentary financial services at no extra charge
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| Customer Reviews: Read 13 more reviews...
 The Utlimate Spyware/Adware Combo April 23, 2005
7 out of 10 found this review helpful
This is the worst software purchase I have made in the past 2 years! The password protection -- Passport vs. standard -- is extremely confusing. The fact that the software talks with Microsoft gives me the creepy feeling that it's collecting data on me. I do not like the idea of an institution like Microsoft having complete access to my monetary data. This idea of remote access is rubbish. In my entire life I have never ever needed to check how my investments were doing while in the middle of a busy day. Not only does it have all my information, it also has a nice little banner that cheerfully asks me to Upgrade Today to Microsoft Money 2005. I paid for this software, and I'd appreciate that, if Microsoft wants real estate on my desktop it should pay for it!! The amazing thing is that, while it uploads my most materially important information to MSN.com and forces an advertisement in my face, the anti-adware/spyware softwares do not even detect this hellish piece of trash. I'm seriously considering going back to Money 99.
having problems converting Quicken files April 19, 2005
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I'm a longtime Quicken user, but because of the sunset on Quicken 2001 I decided to take a look at Money 2004. Money converted my Quicken files, but ALL of my accounts (bank, IRA, mutual fund, brokerage) had errors.
Money outputs a word file saying there were problems, but gives no details. The file only says "Your Quicken file contained invalid transaction types". It does not list out what transactions had problems. Other accounts have the wrong balances and no explanation at all. Some transactions are missing for no apparent reason.
OK, so I resigned myself to stepping through each account to try and find the problem transactions. I found the problem in one of my mutual fund accounts: Money defaults to average cost basis for mutual funds, and I had used FIFO in Quicken. It was a challenge to find a way to correct this. Just reentering the transaction doesn't work. Even though the program allows you to select the lots to be sold, it still calculates the account basis using average costs. After much searching, I found that going into the security detail page and changing the tax lot accounting there would correct the problem. Not an obvious place to find a solution to a transaction problem.
Now, when I change my "home view" to "Investing", the program crashes. There's probably some way to tiptoe around to make the program happy, but I don't really want to invest the time. Luckily I had a backup I could restore.
Money 2004 has many nice features, but I need a stable product.
Note that Money 2004 Deluxe has a sunset in Sept 2007. Money 2004 Standard has a sunset in Sept 2006.
it won't run on xp March 24, 2005
12 out of 18 found this review helpful
I installed the product. and it won't run on my XP professional!!!
don't waste your money.
 better than the Money/Quicken 2005 crop October 13, 2004
25 out of 27 found this review helpful
Been using since 2003 because it has better customized graphing/reports than Quicken.
MS Money 2004, despite its major and minor quirks, is at least still usable everyday without much fuss.
The debt planner is fairly useless except to schedule payments, and to "guess" when you'll be out of debt, unlike Quicken 2003. Mortgage accounts don't allow you to switch between arbitrary frequency of payments per month, as well as always predicting the WRONG interest/principal payment split.
However, I still like the fair ability to customize; from page displays to reports although I prefer Quicken's more modal interface over Money's free flowing "browser" interface.
Looking forward, Money 2005 is a horrible new product that doesn't carry over any of the "it just works" philosophy of 2004 especially with the even more "browser" interface that leaves huge tracts of white screen space (in advanced mode) compared to 2004. Combined with the huge amount of complaints about Quicken 2005's new 'forced' "upgrade" features, Money looks golden.
Stay with 2004.. it's the lesser of many evils. Until maybe 2006.
Glad it's not just me.... August 31, 2004
15 out of 18 found this review helpful
Microsoft just continues to top itself year after year with the continual poor quality of it's software. In that one regard, Money 2004 does not disappoint.
As other reviewers have noted, many previously functional parts of the (mostly well-designed) program have been crippled, or do not work at all. A prime example that I can site is the Debt Reduction Planner... the whole point of the tool is to allow the user to create a program to automatically pay-off the highest interest debt first. It no longer does this--- or much of anything else! When you set up a debt program, the tool used to schedule all of your payments in your Bills and Deposits listing to present an accurate cash-flow forecast. Now it only presents the most immediate payments... USELESS!!!
Add to this sporadic unexplainable data corruption and a complete absence of I/O load balancing in the "background banking" sub-app and you get a software tool that destabilizes and imperils your critical financial data. Oh yeah, and you're paying out the nose for that privilege!
MS Money used to be the only reason I stopped thinking about switcing to the Mac. At this point, Quicken is beginning to sound appealing.
I recently was subjected to inane blather from a financial number-cruncher about how MS is going to eventally conquer everything and everyone in the distributed computing arena.... I say it won't happen. They are committing the one sin that all companies have paid for eventually... arrogance and distain for the needs of their customers. Yeah, Windows will still be around in 30 years. But not much else... and who knows if MS will still be the owners.
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