|
Microsoft Money Deluxe 2005 | 
 enlarge
| From: Microsoft Software
Category: Software
List Price: $59.99
Buy New: $24.95
You Save: $35.04 (58%)
New (1) Used (2) from $14.00
Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 439
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Me, Windows Xp, Windows 2000
Media: CD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 7.9 x 2
MPN: 86000336
Model: 860-00336
UPC: 805529803671
EAN: 0805529803671
ASIN: B0002DOE7K
Publication Date: 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
| |
| Features:
| • | Personal finance solution with award-winning Portfolio Manager | | • | Automatically consolidates online bank and credit card information | | • | Essential tools for improving credit and organizing taxes | | • | Provides current account balances and transactions in one place | | • | Set up a full budget, or compare actual spending to financial plan |
|
| Accessories:
|
| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
Microsoft Money 2005 Deluxe is the personal finance solution that helps improve your financial picture by automatically consolidating your online bank and credit card information and providing essential tools for improving credit and organizing taxes.* Stay up-to-date on accounts and transactions Microsoft Money provides you with your most current account balances and transactions from different financial institutions in one place.* Get help with credit and debt The Credit Center helps you protect and improve your credit reduce high-interest debt and learn more about your credit rating.* Make taxes easier than ever Money automatically tracks expenses finds hidden deductions estimates taxes and provides reports to help make tax time easier.* Your budget your way Track spending in a few categories--like dining out and utilities--set up a full budget or compare your actual spending to your financial plan.* Follow the market and your portfolio MSN Money s award-winning Portfolio Manager puts all your investment information at your fingertips. REQUIREMENTS- Multimedia PC with Pentium 166 or faster processor (or compatible); Pentium II 266 (or compatible) processor required for Windows XP (Pentium II 300 recommended).Windows XP: 64 MB of RAM (128 MB recommended); Windows 2000 or Windows 98 SE: 32 MB of RAM (64 MB recommended).130 MB of available hard-disk space plus 60 MB for Internet Explorer 6 SP1 (if not already installed) plus an additional 200 MB while installing product updates.2x or faster CD-ROM drive Super VGA color monitor with minimum 256 colors capable of displaying 800 x 600 resolution 16-bit color recommended.Windows XP Windows 2000 SP3 or later or Windows 98 SE or later.Most online features require Microsoft .NET Passport; for more information see the Microsoft Money 2005 Internet-based services policy.Super VGA graphics card or compatible video graphics adapter.Microsoft mouse or compatible pointing device.28.8 Kbps or faster modem; Internet func...
|
| Customer Reviews: Read 7 more reviews...
 Get something else. July 19, 2007
T. Brant (USA)
Not going to go into a lot of detail as other reviews already have.
Navigation is good in some respects and convoluted in others.
The software should simplify money issues. Now I spend twice the amount of time as before trying to make the software work reliably. The online updates are great when they work. However, they are the least reliable part of this software. It has reverted back to old passwords on several occasions for no apparent reason. Budget section is OK if you don't deviate at all from the predefined categories. The budget handler of my old MS Money 1990 something was far easier to use and manipulate. Adding new categories and actually properly utilizing them in some meaningful way, downright mysterious.
 Good Features January 11, 2007
P. Nandimandalam (CA)
I'm currently using this product. I am satisified with the features that Money 2005 offering to me. Kumar
Pretty Good Financial Software - and the price was right! November 9, 2006
D. Camp (Turlock, CA USA)
I had to replace the DOS-based financial software (Managing Your Money) I had used since 1993 when I corrupted the database through some careless saving of data from 2 separate instances open at the same time. So I bought Microsoft money purely because it was cheap, and had moderately good reviews. My experience has been generally good, especially with the automatic updating feature, which allows me to track my credit card spending in close to real time. It's missing some feature I liked in MYM (auto-budgeting, and a very useful review screen with actual vs. budget vs prior year by month). In fact, it's one big weakness is that there is not a simple one-step way of looking at revenue and spending categories by month in one place (that I have found), which is how I track the family finances and flag unusual or excessive or missing items. But I'd definitely buy it again - it works as well as Quicken, and at $10.99, how can you miss?
 Money is as Money does November 4, 2006
Jeff Pinkerton (Ashland, MA USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
OK, I've tried them both, and for me, Money is the hands down winner over Quicken.
I've been using Money since 2000. I'm also a Mac user, and bought Quicken for the Mac. It would have been great if Money ran on the Mac too. Although Quicken is my only option for the Mac, it's shelfware at my place. Just don't use it.
It's all the the design. When software developers tout their software, they talk about ease of use, intuitive, flexible, powerful. And with a product like Money, you get what they mean - especially if you run it alongside another product that's designed to do exactly the same thing.
It's not that it acts like it knows what you want to do next, but the navigation built into it means you smoothly move from one task or view to another, without needing to think about how to do it. That's design.
I'm putting Windows on my new Intel Mac - just so that I can run Money on it. It's that good.
It's clean, simple to use, but don't let that understate the sheer functionality of it. If you want to manage your money, this is the way to do it.
Save your cash, don't upgrade. September 27, 2006
K. Thompson (Seattle, WA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I have been using Microsoft Money 2000 for years and figured it was time to upgrade. The 2006 & 2007 versions got low marks so I decided on 2005 because it offered updated online services.
This product is the same as 2000 but with more graphics. Not only that, but it still cannot download csv files which are used at most major financial institutions (Fidelity). When I was able to download data, it only picked up the last 90 days when I had years of data online with my broker. Because it didn't download detailed transactions from beyond 90 days the cost basis and gains calculations were completely off. And if you create an online account for an account where you already have transactions entered (going back years), there is a merge function, but it only allows you to keep the new account and you lose all of the history! Why not allow us to pick which accounts we want to merge and what data to keep?!?
The budgeting module is muddled and confusing. I get a regular paycheck, yet for some reason it decided to only pick up 20% of my income and I couldn't edit it. Plus it defaults to showing the budget by month so if you have an annual expense it shows up for the month and makes it look like you are running a negative budget. The budget module in 2000 was much more simplistic, yet it allowed the user to make more edits and review the data easily by month and by year.
Also, they decided that you no longer need a subcategory for expenses so you can no longer create multiple categories under one heading. For example, I like tracking all of my food under one category, but I want a subcategory for groceries and a subcategory for dining out so I don't have to manually add two categories together when analyzing spending. I guess Microsoft thinks people are too stupid for that. Because of the missing subcategories tracking things like rental property is next to impossible.
I thought 2000 was extremely simplified but did the basics (yet I'd like more online features that are simple to use and retain historical data), and I thought this would be an improvement, but I'm going back to the old version.
|
|
|
Bluecygnet.com Store
International Sites: United States |
United Kingdom |
Canada |
Germany |
France
This is an Amazon associate - the products referenced on this site are manufactured and sold by parties other than Bluecygnet Store. Bluecygnet Store makes no representations regarding either the products or any information vendors offer about their products. Any questions, complaints, or claims regarding the products must be directed to the appropriate manufacturer, vendor or to Amazon.com. | |
