Quicken or MS Money

My old boss used Quicken for the agency's finances. If she could use it so could anyone - including a half-blind, half-daft guinea pig.

I don't know what bad you heard about Quicken, but Intuit has been working on Quicken much longer than MS (or who ever wrote MS-Money) had.

I used Quicken for about 14 years and loved it. I only stopped using it because my bank offers a similar feature online. That and my wife is now doing our finances and she preferred the bank's web interface to Quicken.

The only complaint I had with Quicken was that it needed to be installed on C: drive on the root folder. If you installed it anywhere else, it had problems. I never understood this since it seems that this bug would be fairly easy to fix. :shrug:

The other sort of complaint is that they update the software every year. Fortunatly, you don't need to update each year. I typically updated every other year or even less frequently. The software had all the features I needed, I just liked updating to make sure that bugs were fixed, etc...

At some point I wanted to start using a money management software package. I generally like MS products but decided to try Quicken figuring it's the industry leader and all that. I was soooooooo disappointed. The UI was slow, the app crashed several times, features were often unintuitive. I couldn't understand how it became the market leader.

So I sent Quicken right back to the manufacturer, and downloaded the 90-day trial of Money which I liked a lot more.