What really sold me was Aaron Patzer, formerly of Mint, now VP and general manager of Intuit’s personal finance group, getting out and talking to just about any major Mac site that would listen. I’ll admit, I was extremely skeptical about QEM for the past couple months when looking at the multitude of failures and delays of Quicken Financial Life. However, if all you need is to get a hold of your spending and create a budget then QEM should fit right in for you. It lacks stock-lot accounting, bill pay, and TurboTax export, among a few other things, I’m sure. Now, it truly is just the essentials, but it’s the essentials done right. Today we realize the culmination of that fresh outlook on financing in Quicken Essentials for Mac. He promptly ousted the much-delayed Quicken Financial Life and put his Mac-savvy Mint team on the job to compile the essentials of finance tracking in a built-from-the-ground up Cocoa version of Quicken for the Mac. Then in October 2009, Quicken bought, and put Mint’s head honcho, Aaron Patzer, in charge of the Quicken team. I even started to contemplate alternatives to Quicken, but ended up deciding to just stick with my decrepit 2004 version. Sadly, that ship date kept being pushed back again and again. This was to be a rewrite of Quicken for Mac that sport a fresh user interface and finally bring Intel native code. Then, in January 2008, there was the promise of Quicken Financial Life for Mac, with a ship date of Fall 2008. I’ve been using Quicken 2004 for Mac since, well, 2004, because the “upgrades” (read $70 bug fixes) just weren’t justifiable in the 2005, 2006, and 2007 versions.
However, the Mac version had long been put out to pasture with the last version, Quicken 2007, having been released in the Summer of 2006.
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Quicken for Windows remains, from what I’ve heard, the gold standard. If you wanted to digitally keep track of your finances, Quicken was the first name you heard of. Quicken has long been the standard of personal finance for the better part of the last 15 years.
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