Too late.  I switched to iBank and no need to bother with another switching.

OK, so let’s see what we’ve got here: Quicken took years of promises to deliver Quicken Essentials that is so limited even they admit it doesn’t replace Quicken 2007 on the Mac. Lion came out this past July, with ample warning that apps like Quicken wouldn’t run in it. So now, after months of “we are working on it”, the folks at Quicken want us Mac owners to put off upgrading to Lion for almost another 6 months (depending on how you interpret “spring”). All so we can run a 5 year old application.

I still don’t think Quicken gets it. I know that when I upgrade to Lion, which I haven’t done yet for unrelated reasons, I will no longer be able to run Quicken 2006. That’s OK. On January 1 a new year starts and I’ll start tracking that year in iBank.

Too Late. Went to MoneyDance a year or so ago.

CJ You hit the nail on the head. This is just the latest Too Little Too Late, half-a$$ed, least possible effort at throwing the Mac Community a bone, by Intuit.

This is a good example of why you should not put the year in the name of your application. I’m sure there will be massive throngs rushing to put “Quicken 2007” on their 2012 MacBook Pros.

This is a good example of why you should not put the year in the name of your application.

“Lion Compatible Quicken for Mac 2007?”
Yikes!

Immediately switched to iBank (with the iOS parallel app) as soon as I updated to Lion. Simple and better.

Too, no reason to accept Intuit’s huge f*** you to Mac users.

And an issue being lost here: Quicken’s format is a de facto standard used by nearly all banks—a format eschewed by Quicken essentials, which is another huge f*** you to Mac users.

Can’t support a company that inexcusably treats me like garbage. I know it’s how Big Business rolls these days but still inexcusable.

I switched to iBank a couple of years ago; so I understand all the angst with Intuit. On the other hand, if they deliver this product it is a plus for the Mac platform. If they then proceed to develop upgrades to their Mac product it will be a big plus for Mac users. Look, this can only be interpreted as another sign that the Mac platform is growing. That is a good thing. Late yes. It is still important.

Is it just me?  I remember reading when Lion was about to be released that Intuit was considering licensing the Rosetta emulation technology from Apple, and implementing it in Quicken for Mac.

Based on the fact they are now talking about releasing the 2007 version of Quicken for Mac in a Lion compatible binary - I am jumping to the conclusion that this deal has been consummated.  This path would make “Quicken 2007 for Mac ‘Loin compatible’”, and explains why there are no feature improvements

Intuit did nothing to their soon-to-be six-year-old codebase - they simply purchased some libraries and recompiled their source.  Nothing more…

PS - Am I the only one who switched to SEE Finance?

Good, Aaron! 
Do it!  The sooner the better.
I’ll use it.  (The lack of Q2007—and also MS Entourage—is one reason I’m not on Lion yet.)

As an alternative, I’m considering either (1) Dual Booting—to Lion and SL or (2) Virtual Emulation of SL on top of Lion.  Then could run lots of former applications via SL’s Rosetta.
If anyone is using either of these two alternatives on Lion and on newest Macs, I loved to hear how it works!?!

PS - Am I the only one who switched to SEE Finance?

Nope.  It’s the only alternative that imported my 150 account/years of Quicken data without a hitch.

I have an eight old version of Quicken. I updated to this version in order to get auto update investment prices. It was suppose to last two year but I was lucky to get two months. I have manually updated prices ever since. The next update will not be Quicken. It has been a continuous headache to get it to work the way it claim it was suppose to. I will not be burnt again.

Astounding that Intuit still doesn’t get it.  When we moved from PC to Mac 2 years ago (after 10+ years on Quicken Win) I did a ton of research and it was clear Quicken Mac was a non-starter.  Chose MoneyDance, which is imperfect in a few small ways but is as close to Quicken Win as I could find.  So much of the US is now on Mac that the only clear answer is ONE PRODUCT THAT RUNS THE SAME WAY ON BOTH WIN and MAC.

And what’s going to happen to Quicken with Mountain Lion?

Shall we wait another couple of years?