Quicken 2008 for Mac? Not Exactly...

OK, so I've been up to my eyeballs in tax software for the past couple of weeks and I haven't given Quicken for Mac much thought, until a friend asked me a couple of days ago if I had heard anything about a release date yet (nope).

Quicken for Mac was recently presented in "sort of beta" at MacWorld '08. Quicken Financial Life for Mac (not Quicken 2008 for Mac) beta will be out in August so who knows when it will hit retail channels. My first guess was early in 2009, but AppleInsider says Quicken Financial Life for Mac is scheduled to release in the fall of 2008. If this is so, the proposed beta testing period won't last long.

Not sure why the name change from Quicken for Mac to Quicken Financial Life for Mac (which sounds like a financial Holideck from a Star Trek - The Next Generation episode), but I do think financial software should lose the year in the title because frankly, it seems that there is a rush to cram more features into the software each year instead of focusing resources on fixing existing bugs and fine tuning features. Well, except that it sounds like Quicken Financial Life for Mac has been rebuilt from the ground-up (something about Coco - I'm not a Mac user) and it will not be quite as crammed with features as Quicken 2008 for Windows...or Quicken 2007 for that matter.

Thanks to the link Aaron provided in comment #10 in my Quicken 2008 for Mac? No/Yes/Maybe blog post, I read about Charles Jades' Quicken for Mac findings...er, I mean Quicken Financial Life for Mac.

Mac fans can always give Moneydance a try. I don't think it's as pretty as Quicken Financial Life for Mac promises to be, but it is reliable, reasonably-priced personal finance software that runs on multiple platforms.

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