Quicken for Mac

When I switched over to Mac from PC, one of my big concerns was all of my financial data that I’d been keeping on the PC version of Quicken. Everywhere I went, searching for information on Quicken for Mac, everywhere, read like those signs you see out in the desert near abandoned wells and mines: Don’t come near! Caution! Beware! Stay Away!… and for good reason. The Mac version of Quicken is truly an awful program, one of the worst I’ve ever seen,

What’s amazing is how little respect Quicken has for its customers, how really, really bad the program can be and how anyone puts up with it at all. And that’s just for the PC version. The Mac version is really like that horrible disfigured monster that the creepy bad guy keeps in the basement in a bad movie: don’t open the door!

And translating your PC Quicken files to Mac files? Not gonna happen with this company. They make it almost impossible and much of the attached information does not translate at all.

So my big reservation at switching to Mac was Quicken. Luckily, of course, along came Parallels and VMWare’s Fusion (a much cooler program, but more about that it a different post), so I could load in Windows XP and still run Quicken 2007. A pain, but worth it, I guess.

Anyway, now I just read about Quicken developing, from the ground up, a brand new Intel Mac version of quicken, which they expect to be available for late 2008. Here’s the story on MacRumors.com: Intuit To Rewrite Quicken. So we’ll see. I’m not expecting much, since that is what Quicken has delivered in the past.

And finally, there seems to be very few options when it comes to financial programs, so the general public is jammed. A smart start-up company could make a killing with an intuitive. elegant, smart financial tracking program. If you write one up, please let me know.

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