Microsoft Money: suddenly canceled after 18 years

Jun 10th, 2009 - USA Today

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Microsoft Money: suddenly canceled after 18 years - USA Today Microsoft abruptly announced Wednesday it would stop selling its highly regarded personal finance software, Microsoft Money at the end of the month.

Since 1991, Microsoft Money has been the one significant competitor with Intuit's Quicken software. Quicken and Money gave computer users an easy way to ditch pencil and paper to balance their checkbooks and track their stock portfolios. The online banking segment of the software industry was so promising at one point, Microsoft attempted to buy Intuit in a 1995 deal that was scuttled by antitrust regulators.

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