Here is another good example of a product that has been a disaster in the making, they can't hold a candle to quicken, but they sure can back it up considering they have the operating system it runs on.

I mean does anyone use money? I think I used it for 5 mins like 5 years ago and left it at that, quicken is great I wouldn't use anything else. The really sad thing is that quicken can be successful and they don't even have to lock down their software or cd's with "locks" for piracy. As for microsoft's money product, I read somewhere it is one of their biggest flops, and they still continue to "update" it.

I use MS Money

The problem I had when I was testing out packages about 2 years ago was that Quicken had a really stuffed up currency conversion thing. In fact, I searched around at the time and everyone who wasn't based in US and only had US assets were frustrated

Since then, I've been using MS Money. Even though it's not great and kinda slow - it does everything I need to pretty well and quickly. So why would I bother changing when it's not broke?

Btw, this upgrade to 2007 is of minimal marginal benefit to non-US users...

a lot of the new features has to do with online capabilities and US specific issues

A few years back I evaluated money packages and found one MAJOR reason for NOT choosing MS Money. It's called the Passport Account. One simple way for all my stuff to be stolen with just one account and password. Seriously, this is a HUGE security hole.

Gnucash/money/quicken are all safe...as far as good: each has needed features the others don't posess.....We need something better to come along.

pleazzze, why would i trust an open source experiment with my bank account data..! especially one that is made outside of the u.s. i have a number of complaints about microsoft. but one thing that i cannot complain about is their committment and success with keeping things secured. msmoney is cheap, it works, its handy and easy and i don't have to worry about having my bank account hacked via my pc.

I don't use either program, but then I don't have any money.

Always good to hear feedback from an avid user of a program that they obviously have so much knowledge about. Especially useful input you have given to the article. Thanks!

Anything on how to pay fines in Euros?

They must be worred now that gnucash 2.0.0 is out - it's great - import/export any and every thing - that means no lock-in.

And I think the pricing and license terms are quite a bit better than MS Money.

There is no subsitute for being in control of your own data and no excuse if you are not. http://www.gnucash.org

worried ????
i bet they dont even know it exists ....

Given that gnucash is for *nix only, why would MSFT really care about it? It would make sense that gnucash and other *nix only tools are really far down on the list of MSFT concerns.

I seriously doubt that accountants, who generally aren't that technically savvy in the first place, and most home users, are really going to jump ship from Windows to Linux just so that they can use gnucash 2.0.0.

There are some interesting alternatives that I have seen, but none really match up to what Money (or Quicken or a couple of others I can't remember the names of) offers...

"They must be worred now that gnucash 2.0.0 is out"

...you dont REALLY belive that right? Your just being sarcastic, you must be.

Ok Ok, you called me out. I just spent this morning working with gnucash and being impressed by it's clean interface and great features I just had to plug it when I had a chance to be on topic.

But think about this: how can you trust a company that uses mail-in rebates for downloaded software?
Weasles!

LOL... good point. I would love to find a better alternative, free or pay.

No, they know it exists, but its just has so many features that money doesnt have that they are scared to admit they have competition. Microsoft is secretly planning on buying out gnucash and replacing its money line with it because they know gnucash is ages above and beyond ms money. Heck, I couldnt imagine being FORCED to download AUTOMATICALLY, all of my bank transactions directly from my bank site as opposed to having to enter them and reconcile manually. My word, who would want to do that!

END SARCASM

And there is no way to measure the security you enjoy knowing that you have Microsoft software automatically loging in to your bank's web site.

I don't think they're worried to be honest.

And not to knock their work, but there is such a good choice of personal finance software on Windows, I really don't think GnuCash would have hope, which is probably why there's no Windows version.