Quicken 2007 promised for OS X Lion

One of the biggest disappointments for users of Intuit’s popular Quicken personal finance suites, was finding that the program would not work in Apple’s latest OS X Lion operating system.

Quicken 2007 and earlier versions are built extensively off of code that is specific to the PowerPC processor, and since Apple’s switch to Intel-based computers, Intuit has relied on the Rosetta translator included in Leopard and Snow Leopard to keep its programs running. Quicken ran well with Rosetta, but unfortunately Apple removed it as an option from OS X Lion, which in turn prevented Quicken 2006 ad 2007 from running. While Intuit has released Quicken Essentials that will run in Lion, the program lacks a number of features that were present in older versions.

This finding has prevented a number of people from upgrading to Lion, and has also had others searching for alternatives to Quicken for their personal finances. There has been a rumor that Intuit was looking into getting Quicken 2007 running on Lion, and today the company officiated these rumors with an e-mail statement to its customers and a new FAQ on its Web site.

The good news is Intuit is now promising that Quicken 2007 will be coming to OS X Lion, and that it will be available by ea… [Read more]