 - All your finances in one place
- Improve your financial picture
- Understand your spending
- Get a desktop glance at the information you need most
- Improve your investment strategy with help from the experts at MSN Money
List Price: $49.99
Lowest Price: $28.50 
Product Description: Microsoft Money Plus Deluxe provides important financial information at a glance and helps you manage accounts, spending, and budgeting to improve your financial outlook. Manage your day-to-day finances and stay on top of the day to day information you need most. Amazon.com: Microsoft Money Plus Deluxe provides all the tools you need to handle your finances in one place. The new Insights feature allows you to get a glance at your finances without even launching Money.  Money Plus Deluxe home page. |  Spending Insights alert you when you've reached or are nearing your spending limits. |  Cash Flow Insights show what's flowing in and out of your accounts. |  Bills Insights alert you if bills are overdue or due soon. | Taking Money's award-winning features to a whole new level.
Microsoft Money Plus still provides all the tools you need to handle your finances in one place. But it also gives you a quick glance--without launching Money--at the financial information you need to keep you on top of your finances like never before. Money's key features are still here:
- Manage your money your way, from the big picture down to the details.
- Forecast cash flow and stay on top of monthly spending.
- Tackle tax time with ease, from finding deductions to estimating taxes.
- Improve your investment strategy with help from the experts at MSN Money.
- Help protect and improve your credit, and reduce your debt.
Plus, there's so much that's new--Insights!
With Insights, get a desktop glance at the information you need most, without launching money. Spending Insights--Alerts you when you've reached or are nearing your spending limits. Cash Flow Insights--See what's flowing in and out of your accounts. Bills Insights--Alerts you if bills are overdue or due soon. Plus, enjoy even more new and improved features: Link to statements, checks, or images from a transaction. Quickly add links to images and other files to keep important records and information handy, organized, and up-to-date. Background banking helps ensure your account information is up-to-date. Which version is right for you?
| DELUXE | PREMIUM | HOME &
BUSINESS | | KEEP YOUR FINANCES IN SHAPE | | Balance your checkbook | | • | • | | Cash Flow Insights give you a glance at spending | • | • | • | | Automatically categorize spending | • | • | • | | Bills Insights show upcoming and overdue bills | • | • | • | | Know which bills are paid and due | • | • | • | | Enhanced background banking keeps information up-to-date | • | • | • | | IMPROVE YOUR FINANCIAL PICTURE | | Create and manage a budget | • | • | • | | Link to statements, checks, or images from a transaction | • | • | • | | Stay on top of credit and debt | • | • | • | | Spending insights help you stay on top of spending | • | • | • | | Tips, tools, articles, and integration with MSN Money | • | • | • | | Value pack of financial services | | Up to $450 Value | Up to $900 Value | | Plan for retirement, college, and other goals | • | • | • | | MANAGE TAXES | | Export to tax preparation software | • | • | • | | Estimate taxes and find hidden deductions | • | • | • | | Minimize capital gains taxes | | • | • | | MANAGE INVESTMENTS | | Analyze your portfolio, manage 401(k) and IRA | • | • | • | | Track U.S. markets, commodities, currencies, and more | • | • | • | | View Morningstar ratings in the popular ETF Center | • | • | • | | The Motley Fool CAPS on MSN Money | • | • | • | | Make tax-smart investment choices | | • | • | | MANAGE YOUR SMALL BUSINESS | | Create estimates and invoices | | | • | | View business reports and graphs | | | • | | Do your payroll online | | | • | | Monigot invoices and receivables | | | • | | Track Schedule C items | | | • | Customer Reviews: Rating: 
Date: 2008-06-29
Newer versions move closer to quick expiration and online-only features
I used Quicken for about 10 years. I switched to MS Money in 2004. I loved Money 2004 compared to older Quicken. I decided to upgrade to Money Plus so I could keep online updates working. Bottom line - both Quicken and Money get the job done - with a lot of frustration and questionable business practices. I would say that I don't have a choice - but I guess I do - I just prefer the advanced feature set more than I hate their corporate shenanigans, for now.
Key notes on this new version:
- Yes, it seems to take forever to complete an update. It isn't doing anything either - no CPU usage, no network traffic, nada. This is lame.
I use a personal firewall, and I used to be able to block Money 2004 from connecting for software updates to money (and thus expiration notes, ads, etc). With Money Plus, it seems to have consolidated the updates and quotes features, so I either get everything or nothing. It actually tries to do updates randomly while you're running the program. You'll notice that on the Update Now screen, you no longer have the "Download Money Updates" checkbox.
Note that the "online update" takes up to 30 minutes even with my personal firewall disabled.
- The Help/Manual is now "online-only" and isn't searchable. That really irks me, even though I know it is probably not going to help me anyway.
Other than that, I generally like the interface and reports.
As with a lot of other people, I wish MS would just charge a yearly subscription fee instead of forcing upgrades. The older versions have everything, and I'd pay the upgrade price to keep using a functioning old copy and they could have their endless revenue stream.
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Date: 2008-06-27
Money One
Money One for 2008 is a good program to purchase. It is easy to down load. I had no problems with any of the down load processing. The program works great.it is a great tool developed by Microsoft to monitor and help you control your expenses. I would suggest everyone purchase a copy of this program. Rating: 
Date: 2008-06-10
Works pretty much like Money 2007 except WPA
I have been using Microsoft Money for over 10 years and have been pretty satisfied with it. I only upgraded because I was almost out of online banking time with Money 2007. After reading some of the Quicken reviews I am glad I still have Money in spite of some drawbacks.
With every new edition of Money the file size has been getting larger and larger. It used to fit a backup on a floppy disk. No more.
Some of the problems people complain about in the reviews can be solved by changing the settings. One example is of the names on downloaded transactions remaining how you put them.
I do not like the WPA feature, though. I am going to need to do a factory restore of Vista and will need to contact the Money people in order to get a new install code because you are limited to 2 installs and I put it on my laptop too.
With Windows needing restores about 12-18 months I will be in contact with Money support lots more than I would like. Rating: 
Date: 2008-06-07
Money Plus Deluxe - Good but needs a serious upgrade
I use both Microsoft Money Plus Deluxe and Quicken 2008 Premier. While Microsoft Money has an easier to use interface, it lacks a considerable number of items found in Quicken that I wish they would incorporate. First, by right-clicking on a payee in Quicken, you can get a full report of transactions to that payee, while in Money you are given a very limited report. Also I entered depreciation for my car and Quicken correctly did not add that to my Income & Expenses Report, while Money did. I also notice that Quicken has more tools, like a loan calculator, that Money does not have (Money did have in earlier versions, but it appears it was removed). You can enter home inventory in both programs, but in Money the only way I found you could access it is by finding how to modify your home page to include home inventory, while in Quicken home inventory is simply under a pull-down menu. I'm not clear why Microsoft seems to hide this feature. If your financial needs are simple, then the interface of Microsoft Money is probably the best thing to get. However, for more complicated financial situations, I found Quicken to be much more encompassing. Microsoft needs to do a serious upgrade to Money and it can start by simply looking at its main competitor. Rating: 
Date: 2008-05-23
Bugs Galore
Money Plus Deluxe 2008 has given me 6 hours of time to get to know the tech support in Chihuaha, Mexico. After two long sessions the tech guy finally gave up and gave me the number to the refund department. He said there are many known problems, and the Service Pack 1 has not fixed them. Don't waste your money or time with this product. |
