Quicken has been soundly criticized for treating Mac customers as second-class citizens and being out of touch with the Mac environment. Quicken Essentials was a complete rewrite of the program which is fully compatible with Intel-based Macs. Mac customers who are new to Quicken software are directed to purchase Quicken Essentials for Mac instead of the older Quicken for Mac 2007. Existing Quicken for Mac 2007 data files will automatically convert to the new Lion-compatible format. Today’s patch now allows for the software to run under Lion, without Rosetta support. Lion dropped support for Rosetta, so Quicken for Mac customers couldn’t upgrade if they wanted to continue to use the software. Quicken for Mac 2007 was originally written for PowerPC machines and had been running on Intel-based Macs using Rosetta technology. Without this update it won’t work on the latest Mac OS version, which was released in July of last year. The update is intended for existing Quicken for Mac customers who want to use the product on Lion machines. As promised, Intuit today released a $15 update for Quicken Mac 2007 that makes it compatible with OS X 10.7 Lion.
