Microsft Word and Quicken 2004 no longer supported with Mountain Lion

OS X Mountain Lion isn't compatible with PowerPC applications, being that the reason why those applications don't work.

I always recommend to check that your applications are compatible and to update them before upgrading Mac OS X, so you don't have those problems.

Now, if you want to run those applications, one thing you should consider is the possibility to buy Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server and install it onto a virtual machine (using Parallels, VMware Fusion or VirtualBox). It's not difficult to install it, but I don't recommend this option. You will be wasting time and money, and you will get less performance when you run the virtual machine, apart from the fact that you will be using outdated applications.

The best option is to upgrade those applications. Office 2008 and 2011 are compatible with OS X Mountain Lion, and respecting to Quicken, it was released a Quicken 2007 version compatible with Lion and Mountain Lion > http://quicken.intuit.com/personal-finance-software/quicken-2007-osx-lion.jsp

If you don't want to pay for Office, you can go to another productivity suite like LibreOffice, free and open-source, and all your documents will work with it

mende1 wrote:

...and you will get less performance when you run the virtual machine...

Not true:

Running MS Office 2004 in Parallels 8 on an i7 Mac will run faster than MS Office ran on a PPC Mac.

http://www.libreoffice.org/ and http://www.openoffice.org/ are free.

See this user tip on Quicken.

Nice user tip on Quicken!

You might want to shorten the search by those who have Quicken 2004 or earlier data files from having to read the complete blog by Ferd and the numerous comments that update it; to:

1. While still in Snow Leopard, download Quicken 2006 PPC from Intuit:

http://quicken.intuit.com/support/help/patching/quicken-2006-manual-updates--mac -/GEN82200.html

2. Open your 2004 or older data file in Quicken 2006 PPC and it will convert the data file.

3. You may now open this converted data file in Quicken 2007 for Lion/Mt. Lion (which will also run in Snow Leopard).

Michael,

You are welcome to add to my tip yourself, and add your signature saying "with contributions from MichaelLAX."

I do not think my Level is high enough to allow me those editing privileges...

Updated it myself, thanks.

I think now that this line is superfluous and should be deleted:

while still in pre-Lion operating systems to get it converted to Quicken for Lion or later.