[moneydance] "Intuit Quickens the Pace of Reverse Change"

[Stan]

On 3/6/2007 at 6:31 PM Ric Werme wrote:

>2004 is the last version that supported QIF file
>  import and at least one of my financial institutions does not support
the
>  newer methodology that I believe Intuit charge them pretty heavily for.

This is what had me considering a switch back to MS Money, as much as that
idea turned my stomach.  I had vowed never to use MS Money again, after
finally discovering that running a total on all transactions in my checking
account matched my bank statement's balance, but not the balance MS Money
showed for the account (therefore, there was no way to reconcile the
account).

I had lots of "Quicken helper" applications that depended on QIF files to
get data from Quicken and to pass it back.  No other option has ever been
provided for Quicken to share data.  As I used Q2004, knowing that this
functionality was going away, I didn't know what else to do.  I thought
that surely Intuit would come to their senses...

I looked into Gnu Cash, but installing Linux seemed like a long way to go
to get to something that was neither Quicken nor Money.  Then someone
mentioned Moneydance in the Quicken newsgroup.  At that point, I would have
put up with something pretty crappy if it gave me a ticket out of that
mess, but Moneydance was not crappy, and I've never considered going back.
The willingness to listen to, and accommodate, the end users' wants alone
makes this product far superior to Quicken.  And there is no reluctance to
allow Moneydance to share data with other applications.  As much as I see
people complain about the lack of slick reporting, I just use "Save" to
output a report to a file that I can open with something else, where I can
manipulate it to what I want.

I recently got a letter from Intuit admonishing me to upgrade to the newest
version.  They were practically wagging their fingers at me as they noted
that their records showed that I was still using 2004, which would soon no
longer be supported, and the tone was clear that I had better step in line.
 I just smiled and fed it into my shredder...

Ahhhhhh...

Stan