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August 30, 2001 SOFTWARE Money and Quicken Duel for the Consumer's DollarBy STEVEN E. BRIER
Quicken 2002 has several features to make it easier to get your nose back to the
grindstone, including a simplified process for creating accounts and automatically
categorizing transactions for tracking and tax purposes. Assuming you have online access
to your accounts, it can even reconcile your bank statements automatically. (You do
balance your checkbook, don't you?) The basic version ($29.95) has fewer tools for planning and investment tracking. There is a deluxe package for $59.95 and a home and business version for $79.95. The deluxe version is available for Apple and includes support for OS X and earlier Apple operating systems. Money, from Microsoft (news/quote), also got an overhaul, making it easier to set up accounts, plan for retirement or watch your stock portfolios shrink. New features include Moneyside, which displays financial information in a window at
financial or e-commerce sites and can pass along data when you update bank accounts or
shop online. It ties in with Passport, Microsoft's e-wallet. The basic version is $35,
deluxe is $65. A deluxe business version is due in October for $85. Sorry, there is no
Apple version. |
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ntuit rolled out next year's version of Quicken — its
venerable financial tracking software — just in time for everybody to switch from
summer sloth mode back to business mode.