It has been a while since Microsoft announced that its going to discontinue Microsoft Money despite years of effort and millions of dollars spent to try to defeat Intuit's Quicken product. Even after Microsoft stopped making updates to money Intuit itself was facing upstart challenges from web-focused startups like Mint and Wesabe. But then Intuit bought Mint for 170 million dollars…

Last night I fired my copy of MS Money and discovered this. The splash screen made me an offer to “Switch to Quicken”. This is truly sad because MS Money was an awesome consumer oriented product.