Official line
Microsoft discontinued Money and ended support shortly after.
Microsoft · Productivity · Product
Microsoft Money
Discontinued
1991–2009 · 18 years in market
Launched
Jan 1, 1991
Discontinued
Jun 30, 2009
Cause of death
Lost to a competitor
Evidence
Unsourced
What was it?
Desktop personal finance that lost the bank-feed war to Intuit. Discontinued; users pushed toward Quicken.
Why it died
Editorial reading
Intuit locked institutions. Microsoft would not treat a consumer finance SKU as a franchise.
Founder takeaway
If the banks only speak one aggregator’s protocol, that aggregator owns the category.
Sources
Unsourced — editorial reading
No primary source is attached yet. Treat the interpretation as editorial, not a citation.
What replaced it
Quicken
Quicken
The desktop survivor Money could not unseat.
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