Manage your day-to-day finances and improve your financial outlook

Software Information

Microsoft Money Plus Deluxe provides important financial information at a glance and helps you manage accounts, spending, and budgeting to improve your financial outlook.  Manage your day-to-day finances and stay on top of the day to day information you need most.

• All your finances in one place
• Improve your financial picture
• Understand your spending

Software Best Highlights

The home page gives you a quick view and understanding of all your financial information.  View accounting balances, a summary of your bills, and budget information.  Everything you need is right at your fingertips.  With all your finances in one place, it's easy to understand where your money is and where it goes.

• Money's friendly user interface makes it easy to find your way around.
• Save time by downloading your information from banks, brokerages, and credit card companies. (on-line services available for two years after activation, or Jan. 31, 2011, whichever is earlier)
• Cash Flow forecasts help you predict how much money you will have in your accounts.
• The Spending Tracker makes it easy to monitor your spending in key areas.
• View information brought directly to you from MSN Money.  You will find an update on the market, financial headlines from major new services, and articles written by experts especially for MSN Money.

Insights, with customizable alerts, keep you in the know bout the information you need most, right from your desktop.

Spending Insights
Stay on top of your spending without opening Money.  Alerts will notify you when you have reached or are near your spending limits.  View a list of transactions to understand spending; read articles from the experts at MSN Money to help you improve your finances; and share ideas on the spending message boards.

Cash Flow Insights
See what's flowing in and out of your bank, credit card, and investment cash accounts.  If you need more details, simply click on an account to open Money.

Bill Insights
Alerts let you know if bills are overdue to due soon.  Quickly personalize your reminders by setting how far in advance of the due date you want to receive alerts.  Plus, you will get instant updates - pay a bill and your reminder disappears.

Attach links to statements, checks, or images from a transaction
Quickly add links to images and other files to keep important records and information handy.  Attaching links to receipts, rebates, and warranties makes it easy to keep tax, insurance, and home inventory records accurate and up to date.


New Features

• Cash Flow Insights give you a glance at spending
• Bills Insights show upcoming and overdue bills
• Link to statements, checks, or images from a transaction
• Spending Insights help you stay on top of spending
• Track U.S. markets, commodities, currencies, and more
• View Morningstar ratings in the popular ETF Center
• The Motley Fool CAPS on MSN Money

• Automatically categorize spending
• Enhanced background banking keeps information up-to-date (on-line services available for two years after activation, or Jan. 31, 2011, whichever is earlier)
• Create and manage a budget
• Tips, tools, articles, and integration with MSN Money
• Estimate taxes and find hidden deductions

Software Features

• Balance your checkbook
• Know which bills are paid and due
• Stay on top of credit and debt
• Plan for retirement, college, and other goals
• Export to tax preparation software (Microsoft Money Plus exports to any tax preparation software software product that can read tax (.txt) format and Microsoft Money files, including TaxCut and TurboTax
• Analyze your portfolio, manage 401(k) and IRA

Microsoft windows Computer Requirements

• Microsoft windows Vista, Microsoft windows XP with Service Pack 2 (SP2) or later operating system
• 130 MB of available hard-disk space, plus an additional 200 MB while installing software product updates
• CD-ROM drive
• Internet access (requires an internet service provider (ISP); local and/or long-distance telephone toll charges may apply)
• Most online features require you to sign-in to Money with your Microsoft windows Live ID (email and password)
• Audio output capability (optional)
• SVGA graphics card or compatible video graphics adapter; SVGA color monitor with a minimum of 256 colors, capable of displaying 800 × 600 resolution; 16-bit color recommended

For PCs with Microsoft windows XP:

• Pentium II 300 MHz or faster processor (or compatible)
• 128 MB of RAM

For PCs with Microsoft windows Vista:

• Pentium 1 GHz 32-bit (x86) processor or 1-GHz 64-bit (x64) processor or faster (or compatible)
• 1 GB of RAM
• Support for DirectX 9 graphics and 32 MB of graphics memory