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Adriana,

     The old portfolio manager has a message that it will be shut down completely on Dec. 22. I was on that site Friday Dec. 12 and it was all good. About 7:00 PM as I was waiting for mutual fund prices to update I noticed that it had not updated for over an hour when it normally updates every couple of minutes. I clicked update and got the message " There was a problem with the online service. Click OK to refresh and see the last known data". I clicked OK and after a couple of seconds the same message appeared. I clicked again with the same results. I clicked the refresh button and when it refreshed there was no portfolio info, it was all blank.  I closed the window and tried to open PM again and it came up blank with the refresh message. Of course that didn't work. I hit cancel instead of OK and PM closed and took me to MSN Money. I have tried again a couple of times in the last few hours with the same result. Does this mean portfolio manager is no longer available even though the message said we had until Dec. 22? This whole process has been very frustrating, no it has been a nightmare. I understand that the web designers and engineers involved with this project don't see the posts in community and that is very unfortunate because I don't think they understand what a mess they have made of this! They took a pretty good product, totally redesigned it (nobody knows why, maybe to make it look better?), and came out with a marginally usefull product that no one likes. It's like redesigning the Mustang and coming out with a Model T. Not that it would make any difference, but is there somewhere comments can be made that would be seen by people that might care? If so please direct me to that place.

     Thanks

It appears that the project was outsourced & thus far removed from top management. Think about the MS Millennium OS & what a disaster that was. I actually  lived it w/my first Dell laptop. Doncoad....they just goofed or maybe there's some sabotage going on.....or maybe in the "grand" scheme of things, it just doesn't matter that much to MS.

Equity Markets are at nosebleed levels right now & who knows what the bond markets are going to do once the Feds start raising rates. I am about 70% in cash or cash equivalents and am not reinvesting any of my dividends and capital gains.

Due to this disruption of my daily tracking tool, I'm pretty much on auto pilot right now. I kept all my data on Excel & updated quarterly. Also I made a print copy of all my current investments (40 mutual funds) of the old PM on Word which, by the way, I will keep and modify for future use.  Using this as a start point, I  will basically reset w/My Watchlist.  Even if all the data had transferred, the ROI's for My Watchlist are WAAAAY different from what they were w/MS Money PM. I don't think some of the #'s/%'s were right there either. Notw/standing, with either tool, you could & will be able to have a comparative analysis between your different investments. What this will amount to is a reset and you can compare from this point forward. It's a pretty good time to do that for me. It really is sort of forcing me to be even more conservative w/my investments during a time when volatility should be picking up & that is probably the prudent thing to do right now.

Remember when Coke changed the formula & what an uproar ensued? They reversed course and renamed it Coke Classic. (Lays Classis Potato Chips...betcha can't eat [just] one.)

Both these companies are really doing well right now. Sometimes it's good to stick w/something classic.

What does that portend for Portfolio Manager/My Watchlist?

I guess I'm in a wait-and-see mode as well. My data haven't transferred at all. PM is empty, and WL says "We can't show you this right now. We'll get it fixed soon." Therefore, even if I had the time and patience to re-enter my holdings (forget about history), there's no place to do it on the screen with the aforesaid message. What a mess!