Sabkush Headlines: Quicken for the Mac: Finally!
Quicken for the Mac: Finally!
It contained a beta version of the companys long-overdue update of the Mac version of Quicken, called Quicken Financial Life. Eagerly awaiting its release were Mac users who needed a personal finance app with some meat on its bones. They were getting frustrated with Quickens maker, Intuit. The ancient Quicken 2007, which was the last new version of Quicken for the Mac, was so unloved that you didnt have to look far to find people running Windows (inside Parallels or VMWare Fusion) on their Macs just so they could use one of the grown-up versions of Quicken that was available for the PC. QFL never saw the light of day. It was unloved even inside Intuit. Before the product could make it out of beta, Intuit bought Mint.com, the upstart online personal financial information company. Mints CEO, Aaron Patzer (interview), became the general manager of Intuits Personal Finance Group, and took as one of his first jobs overseeing the re-creation of Quicken Financial Life into Quicken Essentials. Features were dropped from QFL, the interface was redesigned, and Patzer made sure new users could set up the product in 10 to 15 minutes. Quicken Essentials, the first new version of Quicken for the Mac since 2007, finally ships Thursday, at a retail price of $59.99.
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