Which would you choose (if any?). My first reaction would be to use MS Money as I’ve heard nasty things about quicken. So I fired up the free copy that came with the computer and it started to go through the wizard. Then the autoupdate routine kicked in, it needed to restart itself so I let it. On the restart the wizard didn’t resume (or even kick in). I tried to add my bank account to the system and although it recognises the bank, it will not download the data with a message saying set up the account again or contact technical support. As the software is an OEM version, this means contacting HP and we all know where that is going to end up….So I’m off to try quicken.
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My old boss used Quicken for the agency’s finances. If she could use it so could anyone – including a half-blind, half-daft guinea pig.
I don’t know what bad you heard about Quicken, but Intuit has been working on Quicken much longer than MS (or who ever wrote MS-Money) had.
I used Quicken for about 14 years and loved it. I only stopped using it because my bank offers a similar feature online. That and my wife is now doing our finances and she preferred the bank’s web interface to Quicken.
The only complaint I had with Quicken was that it needed to be installed on C: drive on the root folder. If you installed it anywhere else, it had problems. I never understood this since it seems that this bug would be fairly easy to fix. :shrug:
The other sort of complaint is that they update the software every year. Fortunatly, you don’t need to update each year. I typically updated every other year or even less frequently. The software had all the features I needed, I just liked updating to make sure that bugs were fixed, etc…
At some point I wanted to start using a money management software package. I generally like MS products but decided to try Quicken figuring it’s the industry leader and all that. I was soooooooo disappointed. The UI was slow, the app crashed several times, features were often unintuitive. I couldn’t understand how it became the market leader.
So I sent Quicken right back to the manufacturer, and downloaded the 90-day trial of Money which I liked a lot more.