Ms-Money on It's a Binary World 2.0 https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/tags/ms-money/ Recent content in Ms-Money on It's a Binary World 2.0 Hugo en Tue, 09 Dec 2008 04:01:56 +0000 When Being Proprietary Makes You Do Stupid Things https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/2008/12/09/when-being-proprietary-makes-you-do-stupid-things/ Tue, 09 Dec 2008 04:01:56 +0000 https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/2008/12/09/when-being-proprietary-makes-you-do-stupid-things/ <p>Recently Microsoft screwed themselves over.  We have MS Money 2006 from back when I was still getting into Linux and hadn&rsquo;t convinced my wife completely about how much better it was than Windows.  Recently we switched to back to a credit card where we previously used to download the transactions from within MS Money.  When my wife went to do this, she was informed that MS Money only allows you to do this for two years.  After that if you want to keep doing it you have to buy another copy of Money.  So when she found this out, did she buy a new copy of MS Money?  NO!  She was extremely pissed that this important feature would expire.  So she want to <a href="http://moneydance.com/">MoneyDance</a>.</p>

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