Real Estate

[polymot]

How about making Industry modules for MS Money. Where is Microsoft in this
arena???!!

Intuit has gotten on the Bandwagon, of having industry modules for their
accounting software, particulary Real Estate Management; where is Microsoft?

I am being led to choose Quicken over MS Money for this reason. When didd
Microsost stop listening to customer?s

 

[Gordon]

polymot wrote:
|| How about making Industry modules for MS Money. Where is Microsoft
|| in this arena???!!
||
|| Intuit has gotten on the Bandwagon, of having industry modules for
|| their accounting software, particulary Real Estate Management; where
|| is Microsoft?
||
|| I am being led to choose Quicken over MS Money for this reason. When
|| didd Microsost stop listening to customer?s

I wouldn't call MS Money "accounting" software. It's primarily designed
(AFAIK) for personal domestic use and not as a business accounting package.

 

[George Nicholson]

Gordon:
The super-premium edition of Money does some general small business tasks
(invoices, receivables), but I don't know how well.

What the OP asks for is a niche market and MS probably refers such requests
to partners who can handle it better (i.e., Great Plains Accounting).
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OP:

|| I am being led to choose Quicken over MS Money for this reason. When
|| didd Microsost stop listening to customer?s

1) Well, they might listen if you posted your request somewhere more
suitable. This newsgroup isn't it. It isn't a suggestion box either. This is
a peer-to-peer newsgroup. 99% of responses are from unpaid volunteers, not
from MS staff (with exceptions now and then).

2) If you want a serious business accounting package, why are you limiting
your choices to Money or Quicken? Or are you talking about QuickBooks,
which is an entirely different animal?

 

[Gordon]

Gordon:
The super-premium edition of Money does some general small business tasks
(invoices, receivables), but I don't know how well.

What the OP asks for is a niche market and MS probably refers such
requests to partners who can handle it better (i.e., Great Plains
Accounting).

I implemented, ran up and used Great Plains Dynamics in the mid 90's -I
wouldn't call THAT a "small business" accounts package either!

 

[Mike Hall \(MS-MVP\)]

Polymot

The 'real estate' addins are for Intuit's QuickBooks, a small business
oriented package.. MS Money is in direct competition with Quicken, the
'home' accounts package..

Intuit is a company that specializes in accounting software at various
levels.. it would be unreasonable to expect Microsoft to challenge them in
this field.. they have enough on their plate with what they already do..

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi George,


FWIW, while MS does have a number of outside
partners for addins and business solution developemtn
Great Plains is a Microsoft branded/ownedproduct line
http://microsoft.com/BusinessSolutions/GreatPlains/
along with a couple of other previously independent
accounting packages/companies.
http://microsoft.com/business/

So far, it doesn't appear that they've done a real estate
management area solution on the accounting side but they
have been active with other products in that market
http://microsoft.com/presspass/press/2000/Feb00/RealtyDesktopPR.asp
and seem to prefer to let their development tools be the
feature in this arena with, as you mentioned, partners
taking the lead.
http://microsoft.com/resources/casestudies/CaseStudy.asp?CaseStudyID=15493

On the Office side there's a Tools for Real Estate Agents page
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/FX011385151033.aspx

=========Gordon:
The super-premium edition of Money does some general small business tasks
(invoices, receivables), but I don't know how well.

What the OP asks for is a niche market and MS probably refers such requests
to partners who can handle it better (i.e., Great Plains Accounting). ...>>
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Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

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