Worse, Money once again leaves Mac users out in the cold Money runs only on Windows PCs. Quicken has offered both of these features for years. This year, you'll get a free year of MSN Bill Pay (an e-bill-payment service run by CheckFree) and, finally, the ability to schedule Money to send out electronic payments when you're offline and compare spending and income for two different time periods. You must select from a menu to make this disappear.Īlas, Money 2003's few cool enhancements are either separate programs, Quicken catch-ups, or useful only to a minority. For example, this year, a small pane displays future bills and a cash-flow projection at the bottom of bank registers, crowding the screen.
Its cluttered display, once so simple, is getting harder to work with while Quicken 2003's revamped interface is easier than ever. That said, we fear that Money suffers from early-stage information overload. Rookies will appreciate this straightforward organization. The new Task-Based Home Page groups your financial chores by topic, including paying bills, planning, and budgeting. Version 2003's interface still looks and navigates like a Web site, with hyperlinks and a customizable toolbar. And its superior customer support services give it just the edge it needs to take our Editors' Choice award. But overall, Money's attractive interface, first-rate Web integration, and excellent investing tools pretty much tie it up with Quicken this time around.
We hate the way Money makes you get a Passport account to access some services, and we fear that the program is getting too big for its britches. With only a few new features-most in the investing arena-there's little reason for current Money users to upgrade from version 2002.
Every year, Intuit Quicken outsells Microsoft Money, and there's nothing in Money 2003 Deluxe to change those popularity rankings.
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