The first version of Microsoft Money dated back to 1991 and was originally part of the Microsoft Home series. However, these versions were discontinued due to what was believed to be an insufficient user-base to justify the expense of localization for more recent versions or the expense to integrate support for the national online-banking standard like HBCI in Germany.
There were also localized versions for other countries, such as Russia, Brazil, Germany and Italy. The last Canadian version was Money 2006. However, Microsoft had not updated the U.K., French and international editions since Money 2005.
There were versions of Microsoft Money for the U.S., U.K., France, Japan, Canada and an International English edition for other English speaking countries.