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Quicken 2007 For Mac Lacks EV Cert Support

Posted by kdawson on from the untrusting-of-the-trustworthy dept.

adamengst writes "If your bank uses the Extended Validation certificates that require a higher level of identity checking on the certificate authority's part (as at least one Seattle bank does), you may not be able to download transactions using the Mac version of Quicken. Quicken doesn't gracefully ignore extra information in EV certificates as older Web browsers do, but instead throws an error and refuses to download transactions. Intuit says they're working on a fix — but users may have to wait 'a couple of months,' and even then the fix may not be applied to versions before Quicken 2007."

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  1. Intuit's Mac support stinks anyway, these days.... by King_TJ · · Score: 5, Informative

    Quickbooks Pro 2009? No Mac version to be found yet.

    Quicken? No 2008 or 2009 version for the Mac! 2007 is *still* the latest one they offer! WTF?

    They've been promising they're going to replace Quicken for Mac with a whole new financial management product, but it's not even scheduled for release until Summer of 2009!

    http://quicken.intuit.com/personal-finance/mac-personal-finance.jsp

    Personally, I'm looking at switching over to a shareware product called iBank. It can import all your info from Quicken, looks MUCH nicer, and actually has regular updates:

    http://www.iggsoftware.com/ibank/

  2. Just wondering.... by himurabattousai · · Score: 5, Informative

    Wouldn't offering this as an update to '07 break Intuit's business model of requiring full-price purchases to get updates that should be free?

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  3. I really hate Intuit by phillymjs · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I use Quicken as nothing more than a glorified check register where I enter everything manually, so none of their sunsetting-features-to-force-upgrades shenanigans ever bit me. Having said that, it still pisses me off what a half-assed product Mac Quicken has always been, and it *really* grinds my gears that Bill Campbell sits on their board *and* Apple's board and *still* the Mac gets short shrift. I don't know how Jobs hasn't broken his foot off in someone's ass about it-- especially since people have their lives in Quicken, and the fact that it's a HUGE pain in the ass to migrate from Quicken for Windows to Quicken for Mac has probably dissuaded more than a few people from switching to Mac. I don't know what's so fucking hard about using cross-platform data file formats and providing 100% feature parity with the Windows version, I really don't.

    I wish Apple would roll their own financial iApp as a shot across Intuit's bow, to get them to straighten up and fly right.

    ~Philly

  4. Re:Is this really "stuff that matters"? by earnest+murderer · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's Quicken, arguably the largest personal finance software developer giving paying customers the cold shoulder.

    This isn't even a "bug" in as much as they decided they would ignore the issue on the Mac platform in hopes that they could just point at the (*still* unfinished) Mac product and say "there's your patch buddy, $60 please".

    On the up side, this is not nearly as wide spread a problem as it might be. Based on my own experience there are a not insignificant number of Macintosh based Quicken users that bought Parallels and an XP license just to run Quicken for windows.

    No baloney, I know 5 and I didn't even suggest it to them.

    The OS X product sucks that bad.

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