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.
Clicked on the “Please click here to be notified when more information becomes available.” in FAQ and get “Hmmm, we can’t find the page you’re looking for.”
Is it April 1st?
So what am I to do about Quickbooks? What are my Mac alternatives? Must I always have this Vista brick tied around my neck? (I refuse to “upgrade” to 7, not giving Microstuft another dollar…)
As I said in an earlier comment, if you must use Quicken (or QuickBooks) or any other Windows program for that matter, run that “Vista brick” as a virtual machine under VMware Fusion or Parallels Desktop (on your Mac).
VMware Fusion has a feature that lets you import an existing Windows installation into a virtual machine. I don’t use Parallels Desktop, but it probably has a similar feature. I actually imported the Windows XP installation that I previously used with Connectix (Microsoft) Virtual PC on a G5 Power Mac.
It’s “virtualization,” not “emulation,” so something like a financial program would not suffer any performance penalty.
Intuit’s treatment of Mac users reminds me of the bad old days with quark express.
From the Wikipedia page:
‘The release of QuarkXPress version 5 in 2002 led to a conflict with Apple’s user base, as Quark did not support Mac OS X, while InDesign 2.0, launched in the same week, did. At the same time the Quark CEO Fred Ebrahimi exclaimed that “the Macintosh platform is shrinking,” and suggested that anyone dissatisfied with Quark’s Mac commitment should “switch to something else.”‘
And just like with intuit, everybody did.