why no recent updates?

vahe guzelimian

It's been a looong time since an update has been made to Quicken. I'm worried that support for the product by the company is fading. So much needs to still be done to be even half as robust as Quicken 2007

UKR

Patience, please.

The programmers are working hard on making updates, fixing bugs and adding new features. And they'd rather send out a package of good updates instead of (as we had before) shoddy ones that cause nothing but problems.

A big batch of updates was released to the Quicken Windows users just last weekend (5/10/19).

My crystal ball tells me another Q Mac update will arrive soon.

jacobs

@Marshall A You are writing as if you are addressing Quicken management, but that is not who is active on this site. There are a handful of Quicken employees who are moderators (to keep the site organized and sometimes to provide answers to support questions), and everyone else is fellow Quicken users like you. 

As for your assertion that "it seems development and improvement to Mac version has come to a dead standstill," I'd suggest that you are taking a shortsighted look at this. The Mac product has a steady track record of updates over the past 5 years, and there is nothing to indicate that anything has changed. Why would you think so? Just because there hasn't been an update since March? Updates are released when they are ready, and the timing depends on myriad factors. Just because this next update may require three months instead of one or two doesn't translate at all into development coming to a standstill. To the contrary, posts by the Mac product manager on this forum, although infrequent, have assured us that work is taking place on several key features users have been clamoring for (like improve auto-categorization of transactions, recognizing fund transfers in budgets, and more enhancements to reports). Would we all like all of this and more to come sooner? Of course! But the reality is that they've been making steady progress, and there's no basis to believe that won't continue to be the case.

jacobs

Please read the comment above yours in this thread. There is nothing to support the idea that Quicken Mac development has slowed. You can't judge from one update to the next; you need to look back over the past 6, 9, 12 months -- and there's no sign that development has been curtailed. Yes, it's now three months since the last update, and yes, that is longer than usual, but I'd nonetheless expect a new update this month. And odds are, it will have one or more of the features users have been asking for which required some significant re-working of the program's architecture. 

As for the Big Picture, it's true that there are still many features from Quicken Windows which don't yet exist in Quicken Mac. The pace of development over the past five years tells us that it will take a long time still to add all the functionality users have asked for. Over time, the outstanding issues will be smaller and smaller ones impacting fewer and fewer users, but this doesn't reflect any slowdown of development -- just slower progress than we would all wish there to be.

UKR

Patience, please.

The programmers are working hard on making updates, fixing bugs and adding new features. And they'd rather send out a package of good updates instead of (as we had before) shoddy ones that cause nothing but problems.

A big batch of updates was released to the Quicken Windows users just last weekend (5/10/19).

My crystal ball tells me another Q Mac update will arrive soon.

jacobs

The Quicken Mac development team pioneered the year-round updates back five years ago, and I wouldn't read anything into the uneven gaps between updates. Sometimes they come as little as four weeks apart; other times, they stretch to three months. It just depends on what different groups of programmers have been working on, and when they come to fruition. Or sometimes, a particular feature change requires multiple pieces to be delivered together, so a delay in finishing one piece can delay multiple developments. And, of course, any scheduled release can be delayed -- by a few days or a few weeks -- if testing uncovers bugs or performance problems.

Quicken Mac 5.11 as released on March 7, so it's been just over two months since that update. The previous update, 5.10, was release on January 31, so it was only 5 weeks between those releases. I'd expect the next update within a few weeks.

Marshall A

Last update for Mac was 5.11 in March.  It is now mid May and still no update.  Meanwhile Quicken for Windows had an update in April and another in May.

The lack of features in the Mac version vs. PC version is extremely frustrating.

I understand that you are a much smaller company that Intuit who you purchased Quicken from, but still... if you're not going to keep up with the Mac version, why even bother having it?  The Windows version does SOOO much more.  Is it that you think the market share of Mac users vs. Windows users is so much smaller that developer resources are better used in the Windows version?

I honestly just want a straight answer on this as it seems development and improvement to Mac version has come to a dead standstill.  Mac users need to know if they need to start installing Windows on their Mac just to run Quicken, or just give it up and look for an alternate finance software.

jacobs

@Marshall A You are writing as if you are addressing Quicken management, but that is not who is active on this site. There are a handful of Quicken employees who are moderators (to keep the site organized and sometimes to provide answers to support questions), and everyone else is fellow Quicken users like you. 

As for your assertion that "it seems development and improvement to Mac version has come to a dead standstill," I'd suggest that you are taking a shortsighted look at this. The Mac product has a steady track record of updates over the past 5 years, and there is nothing to indicate that anything has changed. Why would you think so? Just because there hasn't been an update since March? Updates are released when they are ready, and the timing depends on myriad factors. Just because this next update may require three months instead of one or two doesn't translate at all into development coming to a standstill. To the contrary, posts by the Mac product manager on this forum, although infrequent, have assured us that work is taking place on several key features users have been clamoring for (like improve auto-categorization of transactions, recognizing fund transfers in budgets, and more enhancements to reports). Would we all like all of this and more to come sooner? Of course! But the reality is that they've been making steady progress, and there's no basis to believe that won't continue to be the case.

vahe guzelimian

I am getting increasingly concerned that Quicken MAc development has slowed significantly. There are so many missing features and updates to be made that I still can't use Quicken. Isn't everyone getting worried?

jacobs

Please read the comment above yours in this thread. There is nothing to support the idea that Quicken Mac development has slowed. You can't judge from one update to the next; you need to look back over the past 6, 9, 12 months -- and there's no sign that development has been curtailed. Yes, it's now three months since the last update, and yes, that is longer than usual, but I'd nonetheless expect a new update this month. And odds are, it will have one or more of the features users have been asking for which required some significant re-working of the program's architecture. 

As for the Big Picture, it's true that there are still many features from Quicken Windows which don't yet exist in Quicken Mac. The pace of development over the past five years tells us that it will take a long time still to add all the functionality users have asked for. Over time, the outstanding issues will be smaller and smaller ones impacting fewer and fewer users, but this doesn't reflect any slowdown of development -- just slower progress than we would all wish there to be.