He decided to release an underpowered subset of Quicken, called Quicken Essentials, in early 2010.
He quickly revamped the stalled Quicken Mac project to make its user interface more like Mint, with colorful charts and graphs - but there was still a huge amount of functionality missing. Recognizing the threat to Quicken's market dominance, Intuit purchased Mint in 2009, and installed its founder, Aaron Patzer, as the head of the Quicken division. During this development cycle, was born - a web-based financial management tool which looked clean and colorful and was easy to use. The project was called Quicken Financial Life, and after two years of development, it never made it out of beta testing. The team working on the new version didn't set out to create a look-alike of Quicken 2007, but to re-think the features and design of a program that had originally been developed when everyone had 12' monitors. It was a very big project, since Quicken 2007 was the culmination of nearly 20 year of code development. So starting in late 2006, that's what they aimed to do. After the release of Quicken 2007, the developers at Intuit realized that so much of the code of Quicken was inexorably tied to things in the old OS, there was no viable alternative except starting over to build a new Quicken Mac using the more modern tools, database, graphics and frameworks of Mac OS X.
Quicken for Mac was originally developed for the 'Classic' Mac operating system of the 1980s and 90s, and when Apple switched to the Unix-based Mac OS X in 2001, developers were aware that while Apple aimed to maintain compatibility as long as possible, eventually the underpinnings of old Mac OS would be retired and programs would have to be re-written for the new operating system. Why? This is likely way more information than you wanted, but I think if you read though it, you'll gain an understanding of why things are where they are and what the future holds.
Progress is being made, but the progress is slower than both users, developers and Quicken management would have liked or expected. The developers are well aware that Quicken Mac does not have all the functionality of Quicken Windows nor the legacy Quicken 2007 for Mac, and they are working to build many of the features users have been asking for. Jim and Dan, there's a lot of history that gets us to where we find ourselves today.
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