For any Mac users who are still using Quicken ...

Intuit is finally offering hope that there will be a version that runs on OS X Lion

Not for Lion users

Five years after it issued its last version of Quicken for Apple's (AAPL) Macintosh line -- Quicken for Mac 2007 -- Intuit (INTU) offered this belated assurance Thursday to any users who haven't already switched.

Maybe management took at face value the pundits' repeated warnings -- 56 since 1995, according to the Mac Observer's count -- that Apple's days were numbered.

UPDATE: Reader Al Mitchell points out that Quicken's Mac FAQ link in the letter below leads to a page that tells you where to buy the company's products, but offers no information about the Mac. "That's sure winning back my confidence," he writes.

Posted in: Apple, Intuit, Mac OS X Lion, Macintosh, PCs, Quicken

• Attention users of Quicken for Mac who are switching to Lion

  Don't buy Apple's new operating system until you find a new home for your financial data

  Apple doesn't tell you this, so we will.

  With OS X Lion, the new operating system for Macs released Wednesday, Apple (AAPL) has just cut a significant tie to its past -- namely legacy programs like Intuit's (INTU) Quicken that were written for the old PowerPC.

  As John Siracusa points out in his definitive and thoroughly entertaining MORE

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jul 20, 2011 11:34 AM ET
  Posted in: Apple, ArsTechnica, John Siracusa, Mac OS, Mac OS X Lion, PowerPC, Quicken, Rosetta, Snow Leopard

• Exit Quicken, pursued by a Lion

  Having let the Mac version languish, Intuit prepares for the death of its flagship product

  My first three entries in Quicken, dated Sept. 8, 1997, were a $17.31 payment to Bell Atlantic (remember them?) marked "Philip's modem" (remember those?) and $15 for my annual subscription to the Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link in Sausalito, Calif., which for many years was my only conduit onto the Internet.

  I've been a loyal user of Intuit's MORE

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jul 8, 2011 12:25 PM ET
  Posted in: Apple, Hypercritical, iBank, Intel, Intuit, John Siracusa, Lion, Mac OS, Macintosh, Mint, PCs, PowerPC, Quicken, Quicken Essentials, Snow Leopard, software, Windows 3.0

• Quicken for health benefits?

  Intuit, maker of finance software, turns its attention to health-care bills.

  If you have health coverage, perhaps you've received that ominous-looking piece of mail from the insurance provider that declares: "This is not a bill," but looks a lot like one.

  It's called an "explanation of benefits." But the correspondence doesn't seem to offer much of an explanation to anyone who lacks a medical degree or background as a company benefits MORE

  Jessica Shambora, Writer-Reporter - Aug 27, 2009 6:00 AM ET
  Posted in: GE, health care, IBM, Intuit, Microsoft, Quicken, software