What about Universal Quicken that doesn't take a long time to load and has something NEW to offer Mac users? Since Quicken 2007 is already out and is not Universal, it seems that we'll have to wait for Quicken 2008. I hope that it will be at least universal...I stop expecting anything new from Intuit as far as Quicken is concerned... I wish that there was some serious developer out there (I don't even care if it's M$) that will compete with Intuit. I know at least 3 Mac users that use a PC (or Windows on Mac) for Quicken or M$ Money...

The Quicken mac development team must enjoy having their offices in the boiler room of Intuit. They offer the most horrendous products be it from buggy, crippled Mac versions to unbelievably absent customer support. yet they find a way to release new products every year, toting "enhancements" that are merely dressing for the cost of a whole new product, not upgrade.

Windows users may enjoy this product and I agree it's a necessary one, and Mac users have been patiently willing to put up with their Mac versions for years.

Intuit needs to just go away.

In all respect... Intuit DOES NOT need to go away. That's like asking Autodesk to produce autocad then telling them their software sucks and to go away. You should never tell a mac developer to "GO AWAY". We need all the devs we can get bacause if there aren't any devs... there isn't any software for the mac. And lately i've been getting pretty sick of software companies LEAVING the mac platform.

So they have bugs... they need better QA not developers. Every program has bugs when it is built... it's up to QA to find those bugs and make sure they are fixed. You're barking up the wrong tree.

That is one of the only programs my gf uses at work, and is forced to work on a dell because of it. She can now get a mac intel and live happily since she can run IE in parallels for all the real-estate sites that demand IE only (no netscape, ff, safari, etc).

Woohoo! Now Quickbooks will suck natively on an Intel Mac!

he Quicken mac development team must enjoy having their offices in the boiler room of Intuit. They offer the most horrendous products be it from buggy, crippled Mac versions to unbelievably absent customer support. yet they find a way to release new products every year, toting "enhancements" that are merely dressing for the cost of a whole new product, not upgrade.

Are you talking Quicken or Quickbooks? Because you say "Quicken", and everything you mention could hold true for Quicken, except the part about the upgrade price. I assume that the Quicken and Quickbooks products are done by two separate teams of programmers, not the same ones.

In all respect... Intuit DOES NOT need to go away. That's like asking Autodesk to produce autocad then telling them their software sucks and to go away. You should never tell a mac developer to "GO AWAY". We need all the devs we can get bacause if there aren't any devs... there isn't any software for the mac. And lately i've been getting pretty sick of software companies LEAVING the mac platform.

So what's worse? A company that doesn't make software, or a company that makes crappy software? Its kind of a flip of the coin, either way.

So they have bugs... they need better QA not developers. Every program has bugs when it is built... it's up to QA to find those bugs and make sure they are fixed. You're barking up the wrong tree.

Well, they actually need many things.

First, they need mac developers, so someone can tell them that Mac users like to be treated as people, not like c***.

Second, they need better programmers, period. As the ones they do have apparently can't figure out how to do the simplest of transactions (things that work without fail on the windows software).

Third, they need people at the company to push for an equality of the software between the mac and PC (and the first thing someone there should try to figure out is how to make a cross-platform file format so someone can take a Mac accounts file over to a PC and get it to just work!)

The last option won't happen because they just don't care about Mac users. This shows with their last 4-5 years of updates, which included such wonderful features like "Added .Mac backup support" or "Integrate calendar options with iCal". Ooooh! The excitement of it all.