Microsoft® Money 2007 Internet-Based Services Policy

Microsoft have published their online services policy for Money 2007. The wording is exactly the same as the 2006 policy, with the following exceptions:

1. All references to Microsoft Money 2006 are now Microsoft Money 2007
2. The expiration date is 1st September 2009, instead of 1st September 2008.

There are no other changes in the text.

FAQ Article 400 and Balancing accounts in Microsoft Money

Well, I finally have got to FAQ article 400. It's not really 400 FAQ articles, as the first one is number 11, but it feels like a bit of a milestone. There are now maybe, 550 or more pages on the site - in the last 18 months I seem to have added and added lots of things.

Anyway, on my list of things to add were some short descriptions of balancing accounts. I dare say they need more work though.

There are two articles:

1. Balancing a Microsoft Money account against a paper statement
2. Balancing cash accounts

Both just highlight the options available to balance accounts.

The end of MSN Money Plus

The message below was posted on the MoneyCentral website - the additional help mentions something called the MSN Money Service, which appears to be some sort of replacement

An important change is coming to the MSN Money service. MSN Money Plus will be replaced by the MSN Money service, starting early in July. After the transition, much of the account information you currently have stored by MSN Money Plus will be available through the MSN Money service.


The message itself said:

After June 28, 2006, significant changes will be made to your access to data on this website

If you are an MSN Money Plus user: MSN Money Plus will be discontinued on June 28, 2006.

You will still be able to view your accounts and pay bills through MSN Bill Pay on http://moneycentral.msn.com, but your budget, spending, and bills to-do list will no longer be available. To track the information that you used to track in MSN Money Plus,
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If you are a Microsoft Money user: All of your information will continue to be available on your local computer. On this website, you will still be able to view your accounts and pay bills through MSN Bill Pay. You will no longer be able to edit your account data or view your spending and budget data.

Brief foray into Atlas

I made a brief look at Atlas (http://atlas.asp.net) for the Money site earlier in the week. Actually, most of my use will be behind the scenes in administrating various parts of the site, rather than standard user use.

I did look at the Atlas Control Toolkit, specifically the TextBoxWatermark. As an experiment, I added it to the Contact Page, so it is a little more obvious what to type in where.

I don't know enough about the platforms it supports, but it does seem to work on Internet Explorer 6 and 7 (beta 2).

Over time, I will probably add more Atlas and AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) things to the site. THis may be more obvious in places like the FAQ list, as the page is starting to get very long and unwieldy.