First Look: Money 2006 Makes Very Small Improvements
Now that users have to upgrade every two years to keep online services, Microsoft appears content with minor tweaks.
Yardena Arar, PC World
Tuesday, June 21, 2005
In this year's parade of personal finance software upgrades, Microsoft's package is first to appear: Money 2006 should be in stores in a week or two.
I looked at a shipping copy of Money 2006 Premium, and found little about it to excite people who already own a recent version of Money--especially those who are being forced to upgrade in order to continue getting automatic downloads of bank and brokerage transaction information.
At $80, Money 2006 Premium is one of the higher-end versions in the product line. The baseline Standard version costs $30; the $60 Deluxe adds tools for improving credit, organizing taxes, and consolidating online banking and credit card information; Premium adds more tools for investments; and Small Business, a $90 package, features tools for managing both a small business and a household.
Minor Evolution
Unfortunately, Money 2006's improvements over last year's version--which actually did introduce some significant new features--are minimal. You can now pay multiple bills from different bank accounts, as long as the accounts have been enabled for online bill pay (for example, a spouse's personal account and a joint housekeeping account); you do so via a single screen after selecting the bills from the Bill Calendar (previous versions required handling bills paid from different accounts on different screens).
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