Quicken 2007 upgrade for Lion

I got an email blast from the new general manager of the Personal Finance Group at Intuit that said, in bold letters, "I am happy to announce that we will have a solution that makes Quicken 2007 for Mac 'Lion-compatible' by early spring."

Further, "Working toward a Quicken for Mac 2007 solution is just a first step in winning back your confidence. We are expanding our development team to continue our renewed focus on personal finance solutions that suit the needs of our Mac customers."

I don't use Lion, so this initial foray isn't of direct interest to me, but I like the sound of the "renewed focus" and sincerely hope that it will lead to the release of a new Mac version of Quicken that's an actual successor to 2007, unlike the current Quicken Essentials fluff.

You can see the entire letter here:

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Patty

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Patty Winter
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Talk is cheap. They've got a long way to go to win back confidence.

Reply to
Jolly Roger

I'm afraid this sounds like just more of the same to me. They have promissed things like "renewed focus" many times in the past. I read that as just market-speak for "continuing to ignore real work on, but hoping we can still milk money from." I no longer pay any attention to their promisses, as they have way too long a history of not delivering. I won't believe it until I see an actual product. And at this point, I'd have to say that even a delivered actual product would have to be darned good for me to consider it.

I never switched at all from Quicken for Windows to Quicken for Mac. I played a little with Quicken for Mac and decided it was not acceptable (I'm not even talking about the joke that was Quicken Essentials). For a while, Quicken was the main thing other than games that I kept a WIndows system for. About 2 years ago, I stopped using Quicken at all and switched to MoneyDance (which is far from perfect and has a few things that continually annoy me, but I prefer it to Quicken).

As someone who used Quicken on Windows for, I guess it was over a decade, I have to say that any new Quicken product would have to be a lot better than Quicken for Windows to bring me back. Just bringing the Mac version up to speed with the Windows one would not be nearly enough, and making the interface look Mac-like would do nothing to address the more fundamental problems.

I think my biggest single annoyances with Quicken for Windows centered around Intuit's continual efforts to find new ways to continue to extract money without actually providing anything new for it. If you do anything to interface Quicken for Windows with your financial institutions, you pretty much are required to buy a new copy about every

2 years. The new versions don't do anything actually new or better except that Intuit forcefully prevents the old ones from working online.

I find it ironic that Microsoft was actually more open than Intuit in this regard. Intuit's qfx file format is essentially the same as Microsoft's ofx, the only difference being that qfx adds a version code to support deliberate incompatibility between versions. (The fact that Intuit hasn't released any new Mac versions in a age at least keeps you from getting caught up in that loop).

And even if one accepted the admitedly modest cost of buying the new versions, then every time you broke down and buy one, installing it fills your Windows desktop with ad links that you have to go delete. (And if I recall correctly, you also need to reconfigure any personal interface preferences from scratch).

Not to speak of all the ads that keep pestering you as you use the product. At times it seemed like there was more attention given to trying to sell you other things than to providing what you already bought. I suppose that shouldn't surprise me too much. Looks to me like they keep moving more in that direction - not less. It doesn't take much of mystic to forsee annual usage fees instead of just buying a license up front.

Reply to
Richard Maine

don't be fooled.

notice the phrasing and quoting. they didn't say they've updated quicken 2007 to be fully intel native. instead, they said they will have 'a solution' that makes it 'compatible.' translated: it's a hack.

also, keep in mind there were rumours last year that intuit was going to license rosetta to bundle with quicken, which is consistent with the above wording. they don't need all of rosetta, only enough of it for the app itself.

apple announced the intel transition back in 2005, and here it is 6.5 years later and this is the best they can do?

translated: after disbanded the entire team, we hired a new person.

don't hold your breath on that.

they should have spent their time making essentials non-fluff, rather than waste their time on a 5 year old version of quicken.

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nospam

First they have to win back the trust lost by spamming.

Reply to
Wes Groleau

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