According to the Intuit FAQ on the issue:Ĭurrently, Quicken for Mac 2005, 2006 or 2007 will not work on Lion. Quicken for Mac 2005, 20 were originally built for the older PowerPC architecture, and were able to run on newer Intel-based Macs due to an Apple technology called Rosetta. Most Mac developers invested in porting their applications to Intel, but some huge software monoliths - like Intuit - chose to bank extra profits instead of investing in their own code.Īs a result, Quicken 2005, 20 for Mac will not work with Lion when it ships in the next several days. Rosetta was built to run PowerPC code on Intel Macs and it was intended to bridge a gap until software developers could make their code Intel-native.
In February Apple killed support for Rosetta in Mac OS 10.7/Lion and aftershocks are starting to ripple through the Mac community as we approach the imminent release of Apple's next-generation operating system.
