Mauled by Lion
Mac users who have stuck with Quicken 2007 are about to get mauled.
If you use Quicken 2007 (or earlier), run a Mac and plan to upgrade to the latest version of the operating system when it is released this month, export your Quicken data now.
The next release of Apple’s OS X operating system will scrap the Rosetta environment necessary to run programs designed for the older PowerPC-based computers on modern Intel-based Macs.
That means Quicken 2007 won’t work with Lion.
Intuit has not seen fit to update Quicken 2007 for Mac. Instead, it has developed the wimpy Quicken Essentials. Now I’m sure the folks at Intuit know what they are doing. After all, somebody is buying Quicken Essentials. But those folks can’t do dozens of things that can be done in the modern Windows versions or in the geriatric Quicken 2007, functions I rely on to keep my household finances in order. Where Windows users get regular upgrades and new features, Macintosh users got nothing.
Quicken 2007 was designed to run on the older PowerPC-based machines and has functioned reasonably well on the Intel Macs. But Rosetta, the tool that allows all this to work, won’t exist in Lion (OS x 10.7) and upgrading will cause Quicken to crash. (What does Intuit say? Click here to see.
I’m going to be looking at several replacements in the next few weeks, but am leaning to Moneydance. Yes, it will work with Lion.
If you do the upgrade and your copy of Quicken crashes, I can help you recover the data and export it to something that can be opened by a spreadsheet or a Windows version of Quicken. It won’t be pretty, but you’ll have all your data.
Cordially,
Steven
If you use Quicken 2007 (or earlier), run a Mac and plan to upgrade to the latest version of the operating system when it is released this month, export your Quicken data now.
The next release of Apple’s OS X operating system will scrap the Rosetta environment necessary to run programs designed for the older PowerPC-based computers on modern Intel-based Macs.
That means Quicken 2007 won’t work with Lion.
Intuit has not seen fit to update Quicken 2007 for Mac. Instead, it has developed the wimpy Quicken Essentials. Now I’m sure the folks at Intuit know what they are doing. After all, somebody is buying Quicken Essentials. But those folks can’t do dozens of things that can be done in the modern Windows versions or in the geriatric Quicken 2007, functions I rely on to keep my household finances in order. Where Windows users get regular upgrades and new features, Macintosh users got nothing.
Quicken 2007 was designed to run on the older PowerPC-based machines and has functioned reasonably well on the Intel Macs. But Rosetta, the tool that allows all this to work, won’t exist in Lion (OS x 10.7) and upgrading will cause Quicken to crash. (What does Intuit say? Click here to see.
I’m going to be looking at several replacements in the next few weeks, but am leaning to Moneydance. Yes, it will work with Lion.
If you do the upgrade and your copy of Quicken crashes, I can help you recover the data and export it to something that can be opened by a spreadsheet or a Windows version of Quicken. It won’t be pretty, but you’ll have all your data.
Cordially,
Steven