Nearly 15 years ago, in the mid-90s, Microsoft was under a cloud of antitrust investigation and not for their Windows OS dominance. Microsoft and Intuit were planning to merge and become the de facto software provider for the personal and small business finance and tax software inside the US and worldwide. Seeing that prospects for completion of this giant software merger were very dim, the two companies agreed to walk away and stay independent.
Fast forward to 2008 & 2009 to see Intuit being that dominant player and Microsoft finding itself in the awkward position of not being able to leverage its OS market share to win with the software trifecta of Windows-Office-Money. Microsoft stopped selling Money in retail stores last year and was only offering it as a digital download. Now, Microsoft has begun notifying banks & users that they are totally discontinuing the MS Money product and will stop supporting it in 2011.
I do know that a few of 2K's clients are utilizing MS Money in some form or fashion, and should be starting to look at moving to another product soon (most likely some form of Quickbooks) as banks will begin to drop support for MS Money sooner than Microsoft does. If your company is affected by this move, 2K is fully qualified to help your company identify and implement a new financial management software package.
As a small token of their appreciation - read sarcasm here :-) , Intuit has released a new version of their free Quickbooks Simple Start Edition which can be utilized for personal finances and give you a taste of what their business versions can offer.
Microsoft releases MyPhone (beta) for windows mobile 6+ users!
Microsoft has opened up their Windows Mobile product named My Phone for public beta use.
This service finally would allow users of the Windows Mobile phones to have access to a service similar to the Apple "Mobile Me" service. This provides the capability to synchronize contacts, calendar appointments, tasks, photos, videos, text messages, music, and documents between your phone and your My Phone web account.
Of note is that if your phone is connected to an Exchange server - any items that synchronize with Exchange (email, calendar, contacts and possibly tasks), then these items will not synchronize with your My Phone account.
I have really wanted this type of service for my work phone (WinMobile Motorola Q) as my personal phone (iPhone 3G) synchronizes with iTunes and that does a backup of my calendar, tasks, photos, text messages, contacts and interestingly call history. I can really appreciate what that all means as my highly used iPhone 3G actually has to reformat itself every time there is a software update. Once the update is complete it restores the data to the phone as if nothing happend. The My Phone service will be very useful in those situations when problem/broken phones are replaced, stolen phones are replaced or the ever increasingly needed new smartphone purchase that would require HOURS of time spent re-entering information. You get that added benefit of pictures being backed up and restored as well as text messages that nearly always contain important last minute information that cannot be found in your email.
I unfortunately have a Windows Mobile 5.0 phone that would be unable to take advantage of these services, but that is not stopping me from providing the link below to those that would like to test out (BETA TEST) this extremely useful service from Microsoft.
Check out Microsoft My Phone here.
This service finally would allow users of the Windows Mobile phones to have access to a service similar to the Apple "Mobile Me" service. This provides the capability to synchronize contacts, calendar appointments, tasks, photos, videos, text messages, music, and documents between your phone and your My Phone web account.
Of note is that if your phone is connected to an Exchange server - any items that synchronize with Exchange (email, calendar, contacts and possibly tasks), then these items will not synchronize with your My Phone account.
I have really wanted this type of service for my work phone (WinMobile Motorola Q) as my personal phone (iPhone 3G) synchronizes with iTunes and that does a backup of my calendar, tasks, photos, text messages, contacts and interestingly call history. I can really appreciate what that all means as my highly used iPhone 3G actually has to reformat itself every time there is a software update. Once the update is complete it restores the data to the phone as if nothing happend. The My Phone service will be very useful in those situations when problem/broken phones are replaced, stolen phones are replaced or the ever increasingly needed new smartphone purchase that would require HOURS of time spent re-entering information. You get that added benefit of pictures being backed up and restored as well as text messages that nearly always contain important last minute information that cannot be found in your email.
I unfortunately have a Windows Mobile 5.0 phone that would be unable to take advantage of these services, but that is not stopping me from providing the link below to those that would like to test out (BETA TEST) this extremely useful service from Microsoft.
Check out Microsoft My Phone here.
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