Windows 11 and Microsoft Money

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Still using Money 2002 Financial Suite on a Windows 7 virtual machine here. (Version 10.0 not sure which exact release)

Share and fund information download is semi-automated (a perl script scrapes prices from various sources at 0730 every Saturday morning, and I upload the resulting OFX later on in the day. This creates faux entries for 0.001 units in a "watchlist account" so the prices get updated - a workaround ). Never managed to work around the withdrawal of stock market index data.

Various OFX, QIF and CSV files from banks, brokers and credit cards get downloaded on a more modern PC. These get copied across, cleaned up by another set of scripts (mainly perl, some bash wrappers), and then clicked on to upload.
(the scripts do various jobs - standardise payee names, remove OFX incompatibilities introduced by various banks over the years, and also convert virtually everything into OFX, so no having to accept 20 odd items whenever you upload a QIF file.)

I did think about moving to a sunset version, but I've been happy with this version, and couldn't face the pain of having to revert back and re-enter data if the sunset version didn't work properly or the way I liked.

To be honest, I would have probably been better off moving onto another product years ago, but Money has worked for me since 1999. The best thing about Microsoft Money is that they dropped it well before everything "moved to the cloud".

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