My transaction data is only available via Yodlee. Why must I store my data on the web to download transactions?
[Relevant to Money2005 (v.14) and up] A) Only Microsoft knows why Yodlee transaction data download forces storing your account data on the MSN web servers. Some possibilities: 1) Not enough people were actually using the MSN Money access feature in previous versions to rapidly advance their plan. The plan is to wean us all from dependence on a locally installed licensed application (“Money”) toward using a web based subscription service (“MSN Money”) without our really noticing or caring. This helps move another large chunk of users in that direction. 2) They knew the coupling to Yodlee was going to be troublesome, and they wanted the Yodlee interface to be available to exclusive MSN Money users. So, in order to implement it once, do it in a way that they could easily keep tweaking it to get it right, and do it in a way that involved the least development for the (hopefully soon to go away) client side application software product called Money, they setup most of the Yodlee-to-Money st
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