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I have to completely agree with this. It's one of the reasons I haven't wanted to "upgrade" to Windows 10. I know how Windows 7 works for the things I do with my computer.
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Upgrading From Win7 to Win10 wasn't a major issue here in terms of Windows itself. (The issues were hardware related, as the box I originally did it on did not fully support Win10. The new box does.)
The usual problems in upgrades are UI changes. Win10 brought back the Start Menu which had been removed from Win8.1 (which I carefully avoided), but as usual, MS fixed something that wasn't broken and the New! Improved! Start Menu was rather different from the Win7 version and required a learning curve. <shrug> Things like that are why I run the open source Classic Shell product, whose default is a Win7 style Start Menu.
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I'm still using Microsoft Money 2004 (or the patched version that Microsoft made available when Windows 7 came out). It works to help me balance my checkbook and other financial accounts and gives me reports I can use to do my taxes. I never used it to actually interface with the internet (e.g., investing or downloading through the application from my bank).
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Security becomes a question if whatever it is does go online. If you can avoid that, worries lessen.
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I looked into the only other program available that I can find (Quicken) and it's massively expensive and I read bad reviews on the current versions. As Blossom said, complaints of lots of bloat and non-value added crap to justify the cost.
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My SO has been a full charge bookkeeper, and has knowledge of Quicken. If your needs are great enough to justify it, it's what you get. I think of Quicken as a company tool, not a personal one. An ordinary home user likely does't have that need, and something like MS Money is more than adequate.
(There's a chap in the MSDOS circles I mentioned who still uses the Quattro Pro DOS spreadsheet for his taxes. He's got it customized with macros to do just what he wants. He probably
could do the same things in Excel, but it would mean learning a whole new program and rewriting his macros in VBA. He's loathe to do that and I can't blame him, but what
else he might do if he can no longer run DOS programs is a good question.)
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Dennis