Bow Down to Microsoft

As many of you possibly know, I don’t like Microsoft. Well, unfortunately, I may have to start recommending one of their products. Microsoft Money. The other day I recommened Quicken 2005 to someone so they could import their bank account and work on their checkbook on the computer. The most popular bank around here, MidFlorida, currently supports QIF, which is the export format developed by Quicken. Well, as of 2005, they have dropped support for it. They are now using OFX, which is an open format, and sound great. But two problems: one, hardly anyone uses it yet, and two, Intuit is charing financial institutions for its usage. This also means that developers of software that imports data into Quicken will not work either, because OFX is only works over the Internet. I say boycott Intuit.