Customer Reviews
Excellent Money Management 
2006-08-10
This product is great to organize your finances and see where your money is going for. Monthly reports are available to see where your spending your money, and you can get details of how these numbers were comprised.
The budgeting system appears weak though, and if you have savings goals it only states whether they are realistic or not. It unfortuntely doesn't have anything which allows you to put aside money for these savings goals.
Too many features lost from Money standard earlier versions 
2006-07-31
I recently tried to project what would happen to my mortgage if I added some to the principal each month - a thing that was easy to do in the last version of Money I had. In this version, the only way to do it is to add your mortgage to your debt reduction planner. After doing that, I adding an amount to the monthly mortgage to see how much it would be shortened - the answer came back that the mortgage would be paid off next month, no matter the amount I entered. I'm so disppointed in this version that I will now have to look into Quicken to see if they have the features I used to have. If nothing else, I'll go back to the prior version if I can. This is the absolute worst "upgrade" I've ever experienced with Microsoft. I will NEVER buy another verison of Microsoft Money.
NOT HAPPY 2006-07-21
I had Money 2005 working with my pocket PC 2003, but recently had to change to windows mobile 5.0. Unfortunately Money 2005 doesn't work with windows mobile 5.0. I was told by Microsoft that Money 2006 doesn't either, but Money 2007 would. Now that Money 2007 is out, they are now telling me that Money will NEVER be compatible with windows mobile 5.0. It was very hard to get a straight answer from them!
MS Money 2006 works for me. 
2006-07-20
I had to replace my copy of MS Money 2006 when my hard drive failed and a new drive had to be installed.
I have replaced it and am quite satisfied with the product. I can customize the software to be as sophistocated or simple as I desire.
full of bugs 
2006-06-18
I've been using Ms Money for years and each version I like less and less. I own Money 2006 and this will be the last version for me. If you are thinking about using Money 2006 for budgeting, don't buy thins one. Budgeting and investment-tracking is especially buggy. Money won't let you change between Essential (simple) and Advanced budget, also your investment portfolio screen will not tell you if you gained or lost on your investments today, if you had Money opened the same day, but before stock market opening bell. This is particularly frustrating, apparently "engineers" at Microsoft can't code for "previous day closing price".
I haven't tried Quicken for years, but after Money getting worse with each version, I think it's time to switch.
Great software. 
2007-03-09
This is exactly what I needed, and at less than half the price that the store want!
Now more forecast in Bills Summary 2007-01-31
The greatest feature to previous versions was the ability to highlight items to see where you stood with each bill. No longer! The genius at Microsoft who has more money than Uncle Sam decided common folks do not need a bills forecast.
Full of math mistakes 2006-11-21
Be careful with this software! I don't know why these smart people made so many simply math mistakes, you can find errors everywhere on the portfolio and report pages.
Buggy product, mistake to buy. Will take refund. 2006-11-12
I have been using Money 2002 for years. But one thing I have problem with the money 2002 product is its investment verification. It seems to have problem match stock with its symbol and the actual company name. For example, if the broker download has Microsoft and you want to make it MSFT, the product seems to get into a endless loop of verification. I think it happen when you have two stocks in a particular download that you want to match.
So I brought Money 2006 (not listen to advice on this board), thinking the bug has been fixed. Surprise! I had the same issue. Worst is that I went through a hour verifying 50 transaction and get stucked with the verification loop I talked about. So I save and exit the program, restarted it. The money asks me to start from the beginning of 50 transactions again. That's when I decided that I have wasted my money on this product.
I am a software engineer. I think Microsoft must have tons of extremely bright engineers working on this product. But I am disappointed. This is no mean to make a personal attack on Microsoft. May be the product management has to take blame for this. I don't know....
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Great feature from previous versions removed!!!! 2006-08-13
Overall a great product. I have been a Money user for 5+ years however this year they removed a feature in the Bill Summary / Calendar that was a must. It allowed you to hightlight and drag over upcoming bills and forecast cash flow based on the current amount in your checking account. It was an awesome feature. Anyway 2006 no longer has it and Microsoft confirmed to me it was removed.
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