[Hidden-tech] Ugh: Lion won't support older Quicken

[Stacy Kontrabecki]

I run Quicken Home & Business on Windows XP thru Parellels since QH&B 
does not come in a Mac version. I like it for the free transaction 
downloads from my bank & credit card. Much cheaper to run than 
installing QuickBooks to the Mac OS and manually entering transactions 
or paying to download them. I always purchase last year's version from 
eBay to keep software costs down and to be sure I'm running a late-date 
version that still supports transaction downloading.

Won't Intuit provide a new version of regular Quicken at some point soon?

Stacy

On 6/20/11 11:23 AM, Robert Heller wrote:
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> At Mon, 20 Jun 2011 07:37:01 -0400 Annamarie Pluhar<ria_amp at mac.com>  wrote:
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>> Today's news from MacWorld.. Apple is abandoning Rosetta which means that I won't be able to continue to run Quicken 2006 once I have to do the upgrade.  [And we all will end up upgrading eventually.]
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>> Now, some years ago I wasted a weekend trying to use iBank. It never did reconcile my accounts and I couldn't figure it out so I abandoned the effort. I was disappointed as I'd love to support a good Apple product. (And I find Intuit's efforts to make a mac product ugly.) One thing I like about QUicken is that it really does prevent one from accidentally deleting a transaction. IBank didn't have the same solidity, I felt.
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>> So, I'd love to know what the rest of you mac users think about all this. I do count on Quicken to track expenses for taxes, and since I enter all transactions, I have a good sense of what money I have/don't have. I don't download transactions. I've thought I might be in the dark ages and that it's time to modernize my methods. Anyone want to do a HT session on managing simple finances on a Mac without Quicken?
> I don't use a Mac, but I do use GnuCash on my Linux system.  GnuCash is
> also available for MS-Windows AND MacOSX and there are a bunch of MacOSX
> people on the gnucash-users mailing list.  I'd recomend switch to the
> *open source* GnuCash program.  It is definitately up to managing
> 'simple expenses'.
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