Instead of providing a decent upgrade option for Mac users, Intuit has released “Quicken Essentials”. Intuit is “working with Apple” on this to see if they can’t get Apple to bend a little, possibly allowing Intuit to distribute Rosetta libraries with Qucken 2007.
The reason for this is that Apple is discontinuing support for their “Rosetta” technology, a technology that allows old Power PC code to run on newer Intel Macs. Intuit recently announced that Quicken 2007 for Mac won’t run on the new Mac OS X 10.7 “Lion”.