To Intuit's credit, the wailing and gnashing of teeth of customers was heard and acknowledged in March 2012 it released a Lion-compatible version of Quicken 2007 which remains on sale today. Many unsuspecting Quickenians upgraded their Intel Macs from 10.6 Snow Leopard to 10.7 Lion without fully realizing that Apple's move to drop Rosetta support from the Mac's OS meant that Quicken 2007 would never launch again. The product froze in amber with the Quicken 2007 release, which remained on its legacy PowerPC code base well past the best-if-used-by date while Quicken Essentials, released in 2010 with input from the team, delivered a shiny new money management experience, it also lacked many Q2007 features (integrated bill payments, investment management) that users counted on. Loyal users of Quicken for Mac, Intuit's flagship personal finance manager, have not had the easiest road over the past few years.
