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	Issue 40 - May 2008



	As you would expect in this day and age, I use my computer to keep track of my financial assets. Like a lot of people, I adopted Intuit’s Quicken package and used it happily for many years. I was disconcerted when Intuit decided to stop supporting Quicken in the UK in January 2006, but I continue to use Quicken XG 2004 as it still works and indeed still (albeit intermittently) updates stock prices across the Internet. Nevertheless I did start looking for alternatives, and was further disconcerted to find that Microsoft now regards its Money 2005 package as ‘legacy software’ and unlikely to be updated for the UK market. Both Intuit and Microsoft do of course have every right to make such decisions, although I do wonder why both have decided to withdraw from the personal accounting market in the UK, particularly as Microsoft Money Plus has recently released in the US where it competes with Quicken Deluxe 2008...

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