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3. MSN. Microsoft should have abandoned MSN a decade ago.

I told MSN's product manager in 1993 that it was stupid idea that would be eclipsed by the Internet and the WWW.

He was no fool, and it was pretty clear that he "got it," even as he advanced the party line (that was his job, after all). But Bill didn't.

Now MS is trying to suck new members into MSN by tying it to the otherwise excellent MS Money. Problem is, most users don't want anything to do with MSN -certainly they don't want private financial data stored on it - so they're rejecting MS Money as well (read the cnet or epinions reviews).

What a disastrous farrago MSN has been. MS apparently can't take a lesson from observing the demise of AOL.

Another disaster for Microsoft was purchasing WebTV for $400 million, although I'm sure the inventor of the product isn't complaining.

Problem is, most users don't want anything to do with MSN -certainly they don't want private financial data stored on it - so they're rejecting

I thought I was the only one.

MS Money 2002 is the same way.
I used my older version to run amortization tables, etc.
Money2002 requires me to go online, sign in to do simple tasks such as that.
I never use it.

Back to Money 97.