When Apple announced that they were removing PowerPC emulation support (a.k.a. Rosetta) from Mac OS X 10.7 “Lion” most of us were forced to finally go through all of our essential apps and update them from the five year old versions that “still works fine” to something at least released since Apple started shipping Macs with Intel processors. For the most part this was tedious and occasionally expensive.
Except in one common case when it was impossible: Quicken™, which hadn’t seen a major update since the days when G5 processors ruled the Mac roost. Thus were Quicken users force to decide between delaying the “Lion” upgrade, switching to Quicken Essentials or finding a replacement.
Well it seems someone at Intuit has realized it’s time to fix that.
Quoting Aaron Forth, General Manager of the Personal Finance Group at Intuit:
As you may know, Quicken for Mac 2007 does not currently work on Apple’s latest operating system, Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion). I understand the frustration this may have caused you and have put a team in place to address this issue. I am happy to announce that we will have a solution that makes Quicken 2007 for Mac “Lion-compatible” by early spring.
Since they’re still talking about Quicken for Mac 2007 rather than calling it Quicken for Mac 2012 it may be that they are rolling their own or licensing someone else’s PowerPC emulation software rather than actually converting the existing Quicken code base to run on Intel Macs. In either case you will be able to run Quicken on the latest Apple OS and Mac hardware.
So you’ve still got a bit of a wait but hopefully a “Lion” compatible version of Quicken will be poking out it’s head along with the next batch of spring flowers.