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You'll Wish You Never Bought This!!
I've had it for about 6 months now. From the very first day when I installed it on Vista, I spent HOURS trying to get it to work, and was successful, depending on how you define successful, I guess. Turned out at the time that Vista and Money didn't play nice together...hopefully they fixed that bug by now. Since then, every couple of months the program breaks, including today. It's been a gamut of issues including (not all at the same time):

* Says I can't log in because it doesn't have an internet connection when I can browse well enough to write this review.
* Deleted login info to my bank several times (just one of them).
* Fails to display downloaded info on occasion unless I perform a "Repair Money File" on it. Happens at least every other week. I got this "fix" from tech support but I always have to do it again.
* It has a "service" which runs in the background and is designed to keep the data current by downloading it daily from each account, but this service breaks frequently and I have to reinstall the software to get it working again. This is a huge inconvenience because all online accounts need to be reset up each time that happens and that takes time!
* Tech support usually has a few canned things to try depending on the issue before instructing me to backup the file, uninstall and reinstall, which works half the time.

Tech support is free by email but it takes a day for a response then when I respond another day for their response. They supposedly have chat, but every time I've wanted to use it (always during business hours) it was not available. It usually takes about 6 volleys with TS to solve it, and it is only solved about half the time. My features are crippled because I'm afraid to reinstall it again. Funny that the only thing that stops me from switching to Quicken is that they're ratings are just as bad!

No issues here
I have been extremely pleased with Money Plus Deluxe. Some other reviewers have had lots of problems loading the full version of Money after they used the trial version. I have not found any issues and yes, I did have the trial version first. I am extremely pleased since my last version of Money was from 2000. This program does exactly what I need it to do. I'm most excited about the automated account updates from my bank. I've found that all my transactions have been matched perfectly except on 2 instances, but it was easy for me to just say,"Don't match these." And they weren't.

Great product!

Money Plus Deluxe Trouble, with a capital T.
I'm looking at a desk littered with years of software right now and this product is the absolute worst of the bunch. I hate it. How can I describe it? Counter-intuitive, complicated, gut-wrenching, and even error-prone. I use this software to chart my investments and have used both Quicken (years ago) and three generations of MSMoney which I first started using because it was free and then was suckered into upgrades. The most obvious problem with the package is you can't enter everthing on one screen. Buying and selling stocks on one screen - interest on your money market in another. Recent problems I've encountered are... Dealing with the Tyco spinoffs which the product simple could not do correctly. Plus, when I searched for information on "record a spin-off" (which is supposed to a feature of the program) I got all sorts of random mess returned in the help topic list. The program also could not deal with a merger (even though it is also a specific feature of the program). It would not let me enter the merger because I didn't own shares in both companies! Another problem occured when I entered stock transactions in the regular screen but because I had sorted the transactions "by investment name" the transactions were not subtracted from my account! How's that for a major screw up? There are other problems and inconveniences (software has an expiration date? Who knew.) but they are too numerous to mention. DON'T BUY THIS PRODUCT.

My experience with Money
Money Plus Premium

I've been using Microsoft Money for 10 or more years and have found it to be excellent. I don't use a lot of the bells & whistles that come with the program, e.g., investment management, bill paying, etc., but I use it for keeping my checking account register, for budgeting and for running reports on income and expenses. It's easy to export files to Excel for doing my own budget performance analysis. The only drawback I've experienced with Microsoft software is it can be very difficult to get through the maze to get technical support. One of the reasons I finally purchased a copy directly (all my previous copies came with the computer) was to avoid the conundrum of having Microsoft point at the OEM for tech support and the OEM pointing back at Microsoft (they don't know the software well enough to give tech snpport). And you're caught in the middle. I now decline preloaded commercial software and purchase it directly to make sure I can get support when I need it.

Money Plus is a joke
I have evaluated Quickbooks Pro and Pro Contractor edition. I installed the trial version of Money Plus after reading that it can run concurrently with prior versions (I have Money 2002). After evaluating it, it doesn't even come close to Quickbooks for funtionality. However it would probably be ok for someone who sells Lemonade.

After installing it, I opened my prior version of Money (which has my entire life's checking history) to find out that it somehow got password protected. I couldn't figure out what the password was so I restored the prior backup. That worked fine except I had to reenter a ton of checks. Being a little po'ed about the trial version, I deinstalled it. That worked perfectly... and then some. It deinstalled my copy of Money 2002 as well! I had to restore my system to get that back and needless to say I also had to install and deinstall lots of other stuff. What a collosal waste of time.