Quicken vs. Money (shoot me now)

I've spent a few days attempting to buy an electronic solution to our “Family Financial Management.”

To be clear: I have an MBA, and still have the CD for Quicken ’97, which my wife and I originally depended on weekly.

So what's so hard, right?

Upgrades got us further and further from comfort. Quarterly attempts to get us acclimated to Quicken 2005 yielded only usability gripe-sessions, our credit union doesn’t support Intuit’s recent proprietary (fee-driven) .QIF strategy, and my distrust of marrying all our finaincial data with a Windows Live ID (security risk) has perpetually left me with …seemingly no options (since mid-2004).

After a few days of research, I think one glance at Amazon’s reviews (for the 15+ products) says it all: the most common rating is two starts out of five.

Bad software product management has ruined our family’s finances.

So far, no solution in sight.