It had become a ritual for Microsoft's consumer unit. Every year it came out with a new version of Microsoft Money and sent new boxes to retail stores.
That tradition is now dead.
Microsoft, via a newsgroup posting from one of its enthusiasts, announced it will no longer update Money each year and, more importantly, it will stop selling the product at retail stores.
It's the latest indication that Microsoft is seeing a shift in the way people, particularly consumers and small businesses, buy their software.
(Credit: Microsoft)"More and more retail consumers are going online to shop the endless rows of digital shelves," Microsoft said, according to the newsgroup posting, which was noted earlier Friday by ZDNet blogger Mary Jo Foley. "In response to our retail partners' needs, consumer behavior and business efficiencies, Microsoft is focusing distribution efforts for Microsoft Money Plus software online via download and discontinuing traditional box sales of the software at retail."
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