2004 Share Price Update

Ewan · Joined: 28 Dec 2007 Posts: 3

My share prices haven't updated for quite some time and I understand that
there was some limit to the length of time that the online services were
provided. As I posted earlier on this board, I've been using money for 10
years, I have many accounts and more than 200+ shares to price. It appears
that there isn't going to be a new version of UK money so I'm stuck with
2004. I tried downloading the trial of Money Plus Deluxe but it wouldn't
read my existing file.

So, the question for an MVP is as follows:

Can I continue to use money 2004 but subscribe to the data feeds? Or can I
use Money Plus Deluxe in some way? If I have to subscribe to the data feeds,
how do I do this? There's no information in the help file or online
regarding this.

Finally, are there any plans for producing an international version of Money
Plus? I realise that the UK (or Canada or French etc) markets for Money
aren't huge but there are a reasonable number of users out there who are
pretty dependent on Money and are going to be pretty screwed at some point.
Presumably it is likely that at some point in the future, an operating system
upgrade will kill Money 2004...

Sorry to ask such a long question but I am completely dependent on Money
2004 to manage my finances and I really need to sort this out fairly soon.

Thanks in advance.

Archived from group: microsoft>public>uk>money

Dominic Payer · Joined: 17 Jan 2008 Posts: 3

My Money 2004 is still updating automatically. Sometimes when the Money site
has problems automatic updates are disabled in Money's Options and you may
need to re-enable them.

See Note 2 at the foot of
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/homepc/money/ProductDetails.aspx?pid=002 and
also http://money.msn.com/Money/2005/GBR/IBSP.asp . These are for Money
2005, but in practice older versions seem still to update automatically.

Money 2005 for the UK can still be bought. Later versions are for the US. It
is possible to transfer data, by exporting and importing it, but the US
versions will not read a UK version data file. It is thought unlikely that
there will be a new UK version, soon or at all, as the market is apparently
quite small.

"Ewan" wrote in message @microsoft.com...
> My share prices haven't updated for quite some time and I understand that
> there was some limit to the length of time that the online services were
> provided. As I posted earlier on this board, I've been using money for 10
> years, I have many accounts and more than 200+ shares to price. It
> appears
> that there isn't going to be a new version of UK money so I'm stuck with
> 2004. I tried downloading the trial of Money Plus Deluxe but it wouldn't
> read my existing file.
>
> So, the question for an MVP is as follows:
>
> Can I continue to use money 2004 but subscribe to the data feeds? Or can
> I
> use Money Plus Deluxe in some way? If I have to subscribe to the data
> feeds,
> how do I do this? There's no information in the help file or online
> regarding this.
>
> Finally, are there any plans for producing an international version of
> Money
> Plus? I realise that the UK (or Canada or French etc) markets for Money
> aren't huge but there are a reasonable number of users out there who are
> pretty dependent on Money and are going to be pretty screwed at some
> point.
> Presumably it is likely that at some point in the future, an operating
> system
> upgrade will kill Money 2004...
>
> Sorry to ask such a long question but I am completely dependent on Money
> 2004 to manage my finances and I really need to sort this out fairly soon.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>

Martin Beenham · Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 16

In message , Ewan
writes
>My share prices haven't updated for quite some time and I understand that
>there was some limit to the length of time that the online services were
>provided. As I posted earlier on this board, I've been using money for 10
>years, I have many accounts and more than 200+ shares to price. It appears
>that there isn't going to be a new version of UK money so I'm stuck with
>2004. I tried downloading the trial of Money Plus Deluxe but it wouldn't
>read my existing file.
>
>So, the question for an MVP is as follows:
>
>Can I continue to use money 2004 but subscribe to the data feeds? Or can I
>use Money Plus Deluxe in some way? If I have to subscribe to the data feeds,
>how do I do this? There's no information in the help file or online
>regarding this.
>
>Finally, are there any plans for producing an international version of Money
>Plus? I realise that the UK (or Canada or French etc) markets for Money
>aren't huge but there are a reasonable number of users out there who are
>pretty dependent on Money and are going to be pretty screwed at some point.
>Presumably it is likely that at some point in the future, an operating system
>upgrade will kill Money 2004...
>
>Sorry to ask such a long question but I am completely dependent on Money
>2004 to manage my finances and I really need to sort this out fairly soon.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>

I have Money 2004 and my share prices are updating just fine. Have you
some reason to think that MS have stopped providing you with a service
rather than there might be a problem with your installation?

Regards

--
Martin Beenham (martin at beenham dot me dot uk)

Jaap · Joined: 19 Jan 2008 Posts: 1

Ewan wrote:
> So, the question for an MVP is as follows:
>
> Can I continue to use money 2004 but subscribe to the data feeds? Or can I
> use Money Plus Deluxe in some way? If I have to subscribe to the data feeds,
> how do I do this? There's no information in the help file or online
> regarding this.

My 2004 International version also still updates stock prices. I don't
know about software. I don't use Passport (after the episode 3 years ago).

>
> Finally, are there any plans for producing an international version of Money
> Plus? I realise that the UK (or Canada or French etc) markets for Money
> aren't huge but there are a reasonable number of users out there who are
> pretty dependent on Money and are going to be pretty screwed at some point.
> Presumably it is likely that at some point in the future, an operating system
> upgrade will kill Money 2004...

I wish Microsoft would bring out a new non-US version, alongside the US
version. I think they leaving their international customers hanging, as
usual.

teabag · Joined: 02 Aug 2007 Posts: 93

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"Ewan" wrote in message@microsoft.com...
> My share prices haven't updated for quite some time and I understand that
> there was some limit to the length of time that the online services were
> provided. As I posted earlier on this board, I've been using money for 10
> years, I have many accounts and more than 200+ shares to price. It
> appears
> that there isn't going to be a new version of UK money so I'm stuck with
> 2004. I tried downloading the trial of Money Plus Deluxe but it wouldn't
> read my existing file.
>
> So, the question for an MVP is as follows:
>
> Can I continue to use money 2004 but subscribe to the data feeds? Or can
> I
> use Money Plus Deluxe in some way? If I have to subscribe to the data
> feeds,
> how do I do this? There's no information in the help file or online
> regarding this.
>
> Finally, are there any plans for producing an international version of
> Money
> Plus? I realise that the UK (or Canada or French etc) markets for Money
> aren't huge but there are a reasonable number of users out there who are
> pretty dependent on Money and are going to be pretty screwed at some
> point.
> Presumably it is likely that at some point in the future, an operating
> system upgrade will kill Money 2004...

In fifty years time what you say is almost certainly bound to be true.
Microsoft COULD do it with their next OS that replaces Vista.
But in the next ten or perhaps twenty years I think it is extremely unlikely
that they WILL do so.
There would be a very high incentive for a 'third party' software company to
develop a converter which
could take you (all of us) from the last working version of Money to
whatever the new personal finance program was called.
All this IMHO

teabag

>
> Sorry to ask such a long question but I am completely dependent on Money
> 2004 to manage my finances and I really need to sort this out fairly soon.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>

Glyn Simpson, MVP · Joined: 02 Aug 2007 Posts: 33

For the stock price issue - check that all of your symbols are still valid,
sometimes an invalid one will cause all to stop updating.
http://money.mvps.org/faq/article/170.aspx

--
Glyn Simpson, Microsoft MVP - Money
http://money.mvps.org

See http://money.mvps.org/faq/default.aspx for tips and fixes for MS Money.
To send Microsoft your product wishes see http://money.mvps.org/wishes.aspx

I do not respond to any unsolicited email regarding Money

"Ewan" wrote in message @microsoft.com...
> My share prices haven't updated for quite some time and I understand that
> there was some limit to the length of time that the online services were
> provided. As I posted earlier on this board, I've been using money for 10
> years, I have many accounts and more than 200+ shares to price. It
> appears
> that there isn't going to be a new version of UK money so I'm stuck with
> 2004. I tried downloading the trial of Money Plus Deluxe but it wouldn't
> read my existing file.
>
> So, the question for an MVP is as follows:
>
> Can I continue to use money 2004 but subscribe to the data feeds? Or can
> I
> use Money Plus Deluxe in some way? If I have to subscribe to the data
> feeds,
> how do I do this? There's no information in the help file or online
> regarding this.
>
> Finally, are there any plans for producing an international version of
> Money
> Plus? I realise that the UK (or Canada or French etc) markets for Money
> aren't huge but there are a reasonable number of users out there who are
> pretty dependent on Money and are going to be pretty screwed at some
> point.
> Presumably it is likely that at some point in the future, an operating
> system
> upgrade will kill Money 2004...
>
> Sorry to ask such a long question but I am completely dependent on Money
> 2004 to manage my finances and I really need to sort this out fairly soon.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>

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