bit-tech Shopping: Microsoft Money 2004 Premium US Only

• Microsoft Windows 2000
• Microsoft Windows 98
• Microsoft Windows ME
• Microsoft Windows XP

Rating: 6

Time with product: 3 Months

Strengths: Very easy to install and not hard to use.This software is powerful and has many applications.

Weaknesses: Too many information and some of them I never use.

Summary: This is my first time to use money software.I had no problems with Money 2004. It is a good financial program as far as I used, but my friend met some problem and he suggested me not attempt to download any information from online accounts.Also I saw other people's reviews said there were some problems with Qucicken. The only problem I met so far is for the tax. Hope to upgrade to 2006 asap.

Rating: 8

Time with product: 25 Days

Strengths: Lots of free financial services. Nice integration with many online banks.

Weaknesses: Doesn't work with local FCU

Summary: Lots of useful free financial services, including free Federal Tax return and Experian credit report for 1 year. Integrates well with Credit card accounts, bills and most banks and Federal Credit Unions. Reliable and fast rebates makes this product cheap and better than competitor

Rating: 8

Time with product: 7 Days

Strengths: Easy to use interface. Excellent features.

Weaknesses: Expensive.

Summary: I found Money 2004 to be very easy to install, and the GUI was easy to navigate. The setup of the software was simple, and that most of the features are relevant in helping me manage my personal finances.

Rating: 2

Time with product: 5 Days

Strengths: no

Weaknesses: i can not use it after the installation

Summary: after the installation, it always gave me the error of "send the error report". I restalled it for more than 20 times, however, there was no any change. I was very disppointed about it.

Rating: 6

Time with product: 10 Days

Strengths: Intuitive to use the basic account information. Can download account information from Bank Of America Online directly into the program.Reports option is useful for year-long summary.

Weaknesses: The loans section is difficult to use especially when you apply extra payments and is hard to change with increases in property taxes.Transaction numbers not always assigned properly.

Summary: My opinion is that this program is useful for tracking basic banking functions and interface with online banking is good.Not very intuitive to utilize when using some of the more comlicated functions such as loans with variable interest rates and property tax changes. I haven't tried to import retirement account information yet, but anticipate it will not be easy based on experience with loan information entry.