Money Essentials is available only as a download and focuses on online banking with tools to automatically categorize expenses and generate e-bill reminders.

Gregg Keizer, Contributor

July 20, 2006

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Microsoft on Thursday unveiled a new low-end personal finance program that it's selling only electronically. It marks the first time Microsoft has used a download-only distribution model for its consumer software.

Priced at $19.99, Money Essentials includes fundamental finance tools that focus on online banking, including ones that automatically categorize expenses and generate e-bill reminders.

Microsoft also launched 2007 editions of the other SKUs in its Money family, ranging from the $49.99 Money 2007 Deluxe to the $89.99 Money 2007 Home & Business.

Money Essentials, which runs on Windows XP SP2, can be downloaded from the Microsoft Web site. The other editions can be downloaded or purchased at retail.

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