Trial versions of Microsoft Money Plus (2008)

The trial versions of Microsoft Money Plus (2008) are now available.

This year, there are three trials:

• Home and Business
• Deluxe
• Essentials

All of them are valid for 60 days.

As usual with trial versions, any data created in them cannot be used in previous versions of Microsoft Money. Usage starts from the first time you open up the product and ends 60 days later.

If you later decide to purchase Money (and it would be appreciated if you did so through an Amazon link on this blog or the main website of mine), you will be able to open up any trial file you created.

The downloads are listed on my downloads page

Update - 9th August 2007

The links changed, and so the trials page is wrong (as is the Microsoft Money US site too). The new links will go live on the FAQ site shortly, but they are:

• Microsoft Money Plus Essentials Trial
• Microsoft Money Plus Deluxe Trial
• Microsoft Money Plus Home and Business Trial

Thanks to an anonymous poster informing me

Box shots of Money Plus 2008

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Microsoft Money Plus Home and Business 2008

Microsoft Money Plus Premium 2008

Microsoft Money Plus Deluxe 2008

Comparison of Money Plus 2008 products

Yesterday, I gathered some information and put together the page which shows the differences between the new Microsoft Money Plus (2008) versions. You can see this at FAQ Article 499.

It is a simple comparison which only shows some of the features in each product. Until we get our hands on the product, it is hard to know exactly what everything means.

In addition, FAQ Article 500 lists what is new in the product. There's not much there yet, but the 'Insights' feature looks interesting, and there will be a separate article on that later on.

Money 2008 Information Filtering through

Information on Money 2008 is now starting to filter out, through retail websites such as Amazon and CostCo.

Some snippets of information gathered:

• System Requirements - see FAQ Article 489
• Money Plus Home and Business - Retail Link
• Money Plus Premium - Retail Link
• Money Plus Deluxe - Retail Link
• It appears that there will be online activation for this product. More details as I get it
• The naming is slightly different from previous years - for example, Money Plus Deluxe or Money Plus Deluxe 2008
• Release date expected around the end of August.

More information will be provided over the coming weeks.

Quicken ahead of Money (in terms of release)

One thing that I state in a number of web pages on my site (e.g. I have Quicken and want to convert my file to Microsoft Money) is that Quicken is usually released before Money is, and thus Money will not convert files which have the same 'year' release (ie. Money 2007 cannot convert Quicken 2007).

Information on Money 2008 is currently very scarce. However, for Quicken 2008, although not released, Amazon are publicizing a book about Quicken 2008 already. It is called 'Quicken 2008: The Official Guide'. It has a release date of September 15th, 2007.

This suggests that Quicken will be out around the same time, but also, when/if we see Money 2008, both are in development at the same time, and each product will not convert the other's files, as per usual.