Intuit has released the following FAQ regarding Quicken for Mac:
What is Lion Compatible Quicken for Mac 2007?
Lion Compatible Quicken for Mac 2007 is a re-engineered version of Quicken for Mac 2007 that will work on OSX 10.7 Lion.
How will this affect me if I choose Lion Compatible Quicken for Mac 2007?
If you are migrating your data file from Quicken 2005, 2006 or 2007 for Mac that was installed on a Mac running OSX 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) or earlier, you will be able to simply open your existing data file in Lion Compatible Quicken for Mac 2007.
If you are currently running Quicken Essentials for Mac on OSX 10.7 Lion, and have previously converted from Quicken 2005, 2006 or 2007 for Mac, you will be able to migrate your Quicken data, including any data you have entered in Quicken Essentials for Mac, to work in Lion Compatible Quicken for Mac 2007.
When will Lion Compatible Quicken for Mac 2007 be available and how do I get it?
Lion Compatible Quicken for Mac 2007 will be available soon. Please click here to be notified when more information becomes available.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “SFG” for the heads up.]
MacDailyNews Take: Intuit. Doing as little as possible for Mac users since well before 2007.
Lion Compatible Quicken for Mac 2007, to be released in 2012.
All hail glorious fulfillment of Five Year Plan.
All I need is QuickBooks Enterprise for Lion, and it’s bye-bye Windows for us.
Never going to happen. Intuit doesn’t make accounting products for accounting professionals on the mac
Why anyone still uses QuickBooks on a Mac is a mystery to me. Until they make QuickBooks for Mac feature- and file-compatible with the Windows version instead of a second-class bastard stepchild, I’m not buying or recommending QuickBooks. Period.
QuickBooks for Mac is pretty good. I don’t need compatibility with Windows QuickBooks, and it does much more than what I need anyway.
Who cares? I dumped Quicken for iBank before switching to Lion. I wanted to stay with Quicken (a user since around ’92), but Quicken Essentials (the only choice then with Lion) is a joke. This being released NOW for Lion now shows how little Intuit cares about Mac users.
i did the same. I was content with Quicken 2005, but wasn’t about to hold off on Lion because of Quicken.
Switched to iBank and have been happier than I have been with Quicken.
Back when, every 6 months they’d release a statement or blog post about “nearly there!” I stopped listening on round 3 or whatever of that in early 2008.
And they’re still doing it. Huh.
Anyway, I switched to MoneyDance. Quicken 2007 for Mac was a complete and utter clusterf@*#$% of an abomination. These guys make Adobe look polished.
The fact that Bill Campbell is an Apple board member is embarrassing to both companies.
+10
I don’t touch the stuff. Shove it, Intuit.
Left Quicken for iBank two years ago. Never looked back.
Quicken, you are the RIM of software
Some nerve
Wait…what? They’re not just making improvements to Quicken Essentials for Mac? That is completely boneheaded.
FWIW, I tried very hard to switch over to iBank, but it had some real show-stoppers. Quicken Essentials is actually really nice.
I too have tried hard to switch to iBank, but there are a few things that drive me nuts. As much as I dislike Intuit, I found Quicken Essentials to be better than iBank in everyday usage; though the lack of support for stocks makes it an incomplete solution. I have actually been running Quicken 2006 in a Snow Leopard VM in VirtualBox in hopes of one day finding something as good. If Intuit would put support for stocks into QE, I would probably use that.
As usual, day late…dollar short. Next thing you know Intuit will announce a 2017 planned release of a WebOS tablet to run Quicken. 🙁
If you absolutely must run Quicken, get VMware Fusion or Parallels Desktop and run Quicken for Windows in a Windows virtual machine. XP should be fine for that purpose.
You’ll get a more recent version (not the “2007” version) and better support from Intuit.
That’s what I have done with some old Mac OS 9 games that I really enjoyed; I found the PC version for cheap on eBay and use my VMware Fusion Windows XP virtual machine to play them.
2007? This is like MDN’s “Window Phone ’07” joke, except it’s not a joke. It’s pathetic…
Sorry, Intuit. Too little, too late. Switched to iBank when I upgraded to Lion and I’ve never looked back. Why Steve Jobs was never able to exert any influence on Bill Campbell I’ll never understand.
Bill Campbell is Chairman of the Intuit Board, but he hasn’t been the CEO of Intuit since 1998. Though he likely can influence some aspects of Intuit, it is doubtful that he has any say in Mac support.
What’s Quiken?
I think they make oatmeal.
The email Intuit sent out said the new guy in charge of this division, Aaron Forth, is an actual Mac lover and user. He sounded correctly apologetic and, reading between the lines, himself disgusted at what Intuit has been doing to Mac users. Likely they’ll end up firing the guy, but if he is allowed to continue, I would suggest there might be some hope for real change… whenever he can get that Intuit “team” actually getting its job done.
Intuit has caused me more hours of frustration and wasted time than any other company on earth. I stopped using Quicken years ago and will NEVER go back. I would love to dance on their grave. Their deliberate abandonment of the Mac platform years ago will never be forgiven nor forgotten. I will never trust them again.
After evaluating several of the Quicken alternatives, I decided to stick with Quicken 2007. I set up a VMware Fusion Mac OS X 10.6.8 virtual machine adding only Quicken 2007 and my data files on it. I fire it up once a week to record transactions, etc.
I’ll certainly investigate the new “lion compatible” Quicken, but don’t know when or if I’ll switch to it as what I have works just fine.
Eventually, it will be imminent.
Talk is cheap, Quicken. Too little too late.
I switched to iBank last month in preparation of the leap to Lion, and I haven’t been disappointed. I may still be on a learning curve, but I liked Quicken Mac 2006’s interface better than iBank’s. I may change my mind as I get better acquainted, though
Intuit has Left The Building…
Loosers. I stopped buying their personal accounting programs years ago… don’t need ’em any more.
Let them go out of business, so someone can buy their patent portfolio and make the really good products that Intuit should be making now, but isn’t.
Intuit forced me to switch to iBank when they failed to support Lion. They are a day late and a dollar short. I am not looking (or going) back.
I’m a post-Lion iBank user after using Quicken since ’92. I won’t return to Quicken because of their attitude towards Macs and their horrible India-based tech services. iBank has a ways to go and, with Quicken trying to get back in the game, I hope the iBank people work hard to move the product forward and not simply count on market expansion because Quicken left.
I’ve never seen ANY company–and I include Microsoft in this–treat Mac users with as much contempt as Intuit. Contempt, incompetence, or both? Probably both, but they’re never getting another dime from me. I upgraded to 10.7 and now use my banks online banking. Works just fine and I don’t need their stupid bloatware.
It is a tossup – Microsoft, Intuit, Adobe…
MoneyDance
Quicken screwed Mac users a long time ago. They gave up on us. I will never purchase a Quicken product again.
Count me in as a satisfied essentials user as well. As a long time windows quicken user it is the best quicken yet. Simple to use elegant and online sync is perfect.