The classic MSN Money Portfolio Manager will be shut down completely on 22nd December, 2014 - Please act now!

As of noon Eastern on Sarturday, 12/20 I still cannot access my "classic" list of stocks to import into your new system? Did your system crash again?

Adriana, I remember I felt the same way with the demise of Windows Live and OneCare both were much loved by users and both were taken from us by the decision makers at Microsoft.

Alas, times change and we have to change with them or else stagnate and, eventually, die.

Why can't people leave things alone?  The existing Portfolio Manager was more than fine.  You guys have now "improved" it to a point where it is cumbersome, inflexible and horrible.  Just as one stupid, simple example, I cannot go to one page and see all of my individual 'Watchlists' displayed in the same place; I have to pull each one up independently and manually add them up.  Also, it only allows me to enter transactions to the hundredth of a decimal point rather than Portfolio Manager's ability to report out to four places.  So when I enter a transaction of 23.4356 shares, Watchlist rounds it up to 23.44.  Yeah, I know it's only pennies but it ain't accurate.  Extend that 'error' across my entire portfolio and you're talking substantial differences in value.

Sheesh.  If it works, don't fix it.

Hi ibiwisi,

Thank you for your comments. You're correct. I'm simply a sounding board for the users. I've been relaying the reported issues and feedback to the product team since the first time they announced the changes in September but I have no control over their business decisions.

I have forwarded your comments and suggestions to the product  team earlier but haven't heard back yet. We may have to wait till Monday to hear a response.

Adriana

It's basic fairness to give us a time extension to retrieve our transaction data - manually, one at a time - with PM having been down for 8 days! As many others have said!

     Adriana, I write in the spirit of mutual cooperation and support for Microsoft.  You seem to be a helpful and caring person with the users' best interests at heart.  But with all respect, it seems that you are not in a senior enough position at Microsoft to implement the kind of actions that are required.

     I have just read through hundreds of user posts, and every single one of them was negative about the transition while being very positive about the current Portfolio Manager.  I feel the same way, as I've expressed in an earlier post.

     Here's my request.  PLEASE, PLEASE have a senior member of the Microsoft transition team spend an hour or two reviewing these forum posts.  After he/she has done so, please ask him/her to consider (1) keeping the current PM operational, even if it's for a fee; or, at the very least, (2) delaying the transition date to give current users a chance to work through the very many glitches and bugs that we are discovering. 

     Microsoft could hardly have picked a worse time to force this transition.  Many of us are traveling during this holiday season, and also many of us were counting on using the PM through the end of the year to capture all of our 2014 transactions for tax purposes. 

     I appeal to you and to the Microsoft team:  In the spirit of the holidays, PLEASE take pity on your loyal users, and do (1) or (2) above.  Thanks for listening.

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Hello MSN Money Portfolio Manager users,

You may have noticed the alert on the old PM page saying that it will be shut down on Dec 22. We are aware that the page was down for several days and users were unable to access their data but the page has been reinstated and users should be able to access their portfolios again. Users should try to migrate their data to the new MSN Money Portfolio/Watchlist before the above date to avoid losing data. Please follow the steps located under How do I import my old lists?

NOTE: You can only import into a Watchlist that has fewer than 250 items. Attempts to re-import lists with more than 250 items will fail. You may want to shrink the size of your existing Watchlist or import into a newly created Watchlist. 

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If you recently imported data from the Classic MSN or my.msn.com pages to the new MSN.com Money Watchlist/Portfolio and did not receive all of your Watchlist/Portfolio data, please follow the steps on this article.

If you do not wish to migrate to the new Money Watchlist/Portfolio, you may export your data into an Excel spreadsheet by clicking on Print Portfolio. A table of the data is displayed, select the table (CTRL+A), copy (CTRL+C) and then paste it (CTRL+V) into Excel.

Thank you,

Adriana

Hi ibiwisi,

Thank you for your comments. You're correct. I'm simply a sounding board for the users. I've been relaying the reported issues and feedback to the product team since the first time they announced the changes in September but I have no control over their business decisions.

I have forwarded your comments and suggestions to the product  team earlier but haven't heard back yet. We may have to wait till Monday to hear a response.

Adriana