Intuit says work begun on new Mac Quicken, QuickBooks offerings
Intuit, which launched QuickBooks 2008 for Windows PCs this week, said a new version for Apple's Mac platform is currently under development with a released planned for sometime next year. Meanwhile, future development of Quicken on the Mac is also reportedly underway.
"QuickBooks is currently focused on developing the next generation Mac platform and plans to deliver a new QuickBooks Mac offering in 2008," the company said in a statement provided to AppleInsider. "This decision will result in an offering designed to delight and meet the evolving needs of our new and existing Mac customers."
In the meantime, the finance software maker said Apple customers can continue to use their current version of QuickBooks Pro, which it plans to fully support under its standard policy.
In speaking to AppleInsider a representative for Intuit added the company remains "committed to delivering the Mac community the best business and personal finance solutions in the market," and that "more details will be shared" closer to their release.
In an similar statement provided last month, the Mountain View, Calif.-based firm said it was also planning for 2008 Quicken offerings for both Macs and PCs and was "investigating the best possible ways to serve the entire Quicken community."
"With anticipation of the launch of the new Mac OS X (Leopard) and Intuitâs ongoing focus on delivering customer driven innovation, more information around future Mac [Quicken] offerings will be shared at a later time," the statement said. "In the mean time, we wanted to make sure that you were aware of Quicken Online — scheduled to arrive in 2008. This new offering is platform agnostic and will allow users to manage their finances via any web browser."
Citing a company-wide policy of not making forward looking statements about its products, Intuit declined requests to provide any additional details.
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Hello,
what is very unfortunate is that the actual 2007 Quicken for Mac is not working well;
Downloading stocks quotes has been an issue since June 18th and was never ever resolved
in particular for Canadian Stocks Quotes
just look at the Quicken forums; you will see these treads in priority at the top, no fix yet and we are nearly in October;
even forum users have let it go, posting no new messages
so I suppose evryone is looking elsewhere !
Quicken need to fix Quicken 2007 (and prior versions for quotes download) prior to even thinking of the 2008 version
Hello,
what is very unfortunate is that the actual 2007 Quicken for Mac is not working well;
Downloading stocks quotes has been an issue since June 18th and was never ever resolved
in particular for Canadian Stocks Quotes
just look at the Quicken forums; you will see these treads in priority at the top, no fix yet and we are nearly in October;
even forum users have let it go, posting no new messages
so I suppose evryone is looking elsewhere !
Quicken need to fix Quicken 2007 (and prior versions for quotes download) prior to even thinking of the 2008 version
Agreed. At least the huge increase in Mac sales is making companies like this wake up to Mac development!
As a loyal (used just about every Quicken for Mac version since 2001) but dissatisfied Quicken user, that's good to hear. I hope the new version will get much need UI update and Universal Binary.
As for Quicken Online, no thanks. I want all my financial information on my desktop.
Will they actually give the mac Quickbooks the same networking/sharing features as the Windows version?
I manage an all-mac office, and when we upgraded Quickbooks some years ago my reasearch told me the mac Quickbooks was buggy and unstable. I purchased a PC just to be able to run it, and finance has been happy. Now of course we have a Parallels option, but still.
Intuit, can you please deliver us a mac version of Quickbooks that has feature partiy with the windows one? Plus a UI and performance that we can be happy with, and you can be proud of?
IPhone/Touch Version!!!!
Maybe not soup-to-nuts accounting, but daily financial notebook that could sync back to the mothership.
Particularly if the iPhone as purchasing tool takes off the way I think it ultimately will.