Microsoft Money For Pocket Pc

Android Problems? A Quick Fix – With a Big Catch

I was at Interop all last week; sorry about not writing, but it really was, as I expected, an 18-hours-a-day affair. Anyway, just before leaving for Las Vegas, my Samsung Fascinate (Verizon) notified me that, at long last, the Android 2.2 (Froyo) update was available, this after being in any-minute-now status since I purchased the handset last October. Anyway, I have a policy of making no configurational changes to critical systems while on the road (or about to depart for the road), so I did the update last Saturday morning. And, don't you know it, the result on rebooting was an error box continually popping up despite being repeatedly dismissed notifying me that "Android.process.acore has stopped unexpectedly". OK, I'll admit it, prior to this, I didn't know what Android.process.acore was, although subsequent research seems to indicate that it has something to do with syncing contacts and such. Anyway, the phone was useless at that point.

A little more research clearly indicated that the only fix was that Universal Elixir of the Android World, a factory reset. This is a simple enough process, except that one loses all settings, apps, local data, etc., as a consequence. Nonetheless, a quick conversation with a helpful rep at my local Verizon store indicated that such was my only option here. A few minutes later all was well, except having to reload everything, which I am in the process of doing now. No data was lost as I never keep critical data on a handset, this by both security policy and good practice.

Why good practice? Because it appears that Microsoft has dispatched programmers to help transfer all of the valuable techniques they've developed over the years, you know, with respect to usability, simplicity, and reliability, to mobile OS vendors like Android. As you know, I have serious reservations about turning the handset into a little PC. This is simply the wrong approach for mission-critical corporate/enterprise computing, and maybe for consumers as well, but let's leave them out of it for the moment. As we discussed at Interop, the cloud is the place for enterprise IT, not local apps with local data on handsets. OK, a few limited local viewers and such make sense, and a hybrid cloud/local model will most certainly prevail, but turning the handset into a PC does not. After all, how much productivity have I lost on this one misadventure alone? And I wonder how much Verizon spends on fixing nonsense like this. Can't we do better? And shouldn't so doing be a major priority for handset vendors?

Money reloaded Microsoft Money Plus Home & Business after ...

Scott Tyler brought up the same thing happened to me within the last week. Tech support was originally going to give me a customer service override key, but then sent an autoreply that Money is no longer supported. I had already converted to Quicken 2010 when my Money Plus Deluxe online services expired in October (I was using the Windows 7 release candidate at that point in time, so rolling back my system to dodge activation is a non-starter), and was reinstalling Money Plus only to re-convert to Quicken with the new converter. The fact that MS threw its users under the bus like this validates my decision to move to Quicken. MS is eventually supposed to release a "No Activation" version of Money Plus for users like us (online services will be disabled, but manual entry will still work fine), but if they wait until Jan 2011 to do it, anyone that needed access to their file in the meantime will have already moved to Quicken. Reinstalling Money 2007 or earlier (boxed versions only, it may be difficult/impossible to reinstall online versions as Money has been discontinued), opening the pre-Money Plus data file, and updating it with the last few years' of missing transactions is another option. I may eventually take that last option (using Money 2004 Premium, data file last updated in September 2007) as a hedge against the possibility that Intuit throws its Quicken users under the bus to focus entirely on Mint.com. -- Scott Tyler agent_scotty-at-hotmail-dot-com Chris Fazio chimed in with cal, I have already converted to Quicken 2010 Small business but it did not do a good job at converting my business files and it does not handle inventory. I am going to have convert that file t Quickbooks Pro. But there is going to be a bunch of line by line entry to get the business accounts in order. I will still need a working Microsoft Money to to this. Is the only way by purchasing a newer copy from ebay? There has to be a way Microsoft can eliminate registering these products since they are no longer covered under tech support. -- Time and change will surely show How firm thy friendship O-hi-o Chris Cal Learner-- MVP mentioned 1. You may want to reconvert with Quicken R5. There was some improvement reported. 2. There will be a DRM-free version of Money Plus issued. See http://www.microsoft.com/money/faq.

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