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Quicken 2009 for Windows is a complete product, and a great one. Give me the exact same solution that is available for Windows, and keep them in synch with updates. I’ve talked with a large number of Quicken / Macintosh users, without fail, all of them say: If this is the direction that Intuit believes Macintosh customers want them to move, they are sorely mistaken. It’s now a flashy glorified Checkbook register. It appears that the current Beta has had every feature that makes Quicken, well Quicken, completely gutted out of it. I’m not sure if you are a Quicken Macintosh user or not, but I seriously doubt you’d use it. I’m not sure where the feedback on the design, features, and capabilities of Quicken Financial Life have come from, but it’s not from long-time Quicken and Macintosh users. I also appreciate the difficulty in “starting from scratch”, it’s not easy. I have over 6000 transactions in Quicken. Several of my accounts date back to 1995. I want you first to understand that I’ve been a VERY loyal Intuit and Quicken customer. I’ve converted my data, imported it, and started working with the application. I greatly appreciate the invite to the Beta.

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Subject: Re: Quicken Financial Life for Mac beta I downloaded the software, ran the installation, and cringed. She contacted me about it and offered me a seat at the Beta table (which was an open beta at the time, anyone could join it).

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I won’t upgrade until you support the Mac properly again. I was upset, because Intuit kept sending me upgrade offers for QuickBooks, so I Tweeted this in March QuickBooks intuit QuickenPRChels.

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A “work in progress”? A full year after it was announced? Finally, we got to see it when MacWorld did a Preview: Quicken Financial Life for Mac in February 2009 and noted that it “remains a work in progress at this early stage”. Then the fall came and went, but we kept hearing about Quicken Financial Life for Mac. So after just a bit more than a year from the release of Quicken 2007, Intuit was keeping their commitment to the Macintosh platform and performing an update, which was “slated for a fall 2008 release”. Then in January 2008, Intuit announced Quicken Financial Life for Mac. Leopard was going to be such a dramatic change from the previous Panther release of Mac OSX, that they should just wait for it to hit the streets before releasing an update. Intuit discussed Quicken 2008 for Mac, in order to support Leopard. Erosion of features was also true for Quicken 2007 for Mac, but we got by. We don’t garner the “Deluxe” branding anymore, it’s now just the “Essentials” (more later). I can even remember back to Quicken Deluxe 2000 for Mac. The Windows version was just more feature complete and capabilities had slowly eroded away from the Macintosh version of the software. The development effort at Inuit was clearly on the Windows side and the feature lists of the two products showed it. It didn’t bother Macintosh users too much that the Macintosh version and the Windows version were divergent. Things were looking up, we seemed to slowly be gaining ground back with Inuit and getting more regular updates.

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This was a yearly update to the prior product Quicken – for Mac 2006, which had been released the prior year in August 2005. In November 2006, Intuit released an update to their Quicken software for the Mac, Quicken 2007 for Mac. So, clearly, I find value in the software, enjoy the software, and have been a loyal user of the software for many years. In fact, I’m pretty sure the only other piece of software I’ve been using as long on my Macintosh is BBEdit (I was a beta-tester for BBEdit back in the day). That’s 15 years of use and loyalty to a piece of software. I’ve used Quicken since at least 1995 (those are the oldest entries in my register in Quicken today, but I think I’ve used it longer than that) and I have over 6000 entries. I’m upset with Intuit and I’m not sure what to do about it.įirst and foremost, let me get this out of the way.