Intuit was previewing the massively revamped Quicken at its Expo booth during last week’s trade show. So bid goodbye to Quicken, and say hello to Quicken Financial Life for Mac, which is slated for a fall 2008 release. The current program and its code base “wasn’t enough to sustain us,” said Ian Vacin, leader for Mac financial software at Intuit, on the Macworld Expo show floor last week. The even-better news: The Intel-native version of Quicken will be a complete rewrite of a program that even its developer concedes was getting long in the tooth. The good news: Quicken maker Intuit plans to remedy the situation when it releases a new version of the personal finance app that will run natively on Intel-based Macs. People who turn to their Mac to help manager their personal finances have noted the absence of Quicken, last updated in 2006 with the release of Quicken Mac 2007. I’m not in the habit of correcting Steve Jobs, but when the Apple CEO noted in his Expo keynote that Microsoft Office was the last major Mac app to finally make the transition to Intel-based Macs, he was forgetting at least one program. Editor’s Note: Macworld Expo 2008 is in the books, but Macworld editors still have a few reports from the Macworld Expo show floor on meetings with Mac developers, new product announcements, and anything else that catches their eye.
