It was hard not to ask him questions about and future plans for that I had a chance to speak with Patzer who showed me around the Quicken 2010 Essentials application. A year later, they've come out with a real, Mac 'look and feel' version of Quicken, but without many of the previous version's capabilities. With the purchase, Intuit also got Mint founder Aaron Patzer, who they installed as vice president and general manager of Intuit's Personal Finance Group. The backstory on this one is important so here it is in a nutshell: Intuit bought the amazing home finances site last year, to the dismay of many Mint users. If they'd bring this look and feel to full-featured applications like QuickBooks, I may be able to ditch my VMWare Virtual Machine software and completely go Mac (QuickBooks for Mac is a bad joke and, more important, isn't 100% compatible with the PC version my accountant uses). I've been playing with Quicken Essentials 2010 for Mac (or QEM for short) for the past few weeks, and while its user interface is beautiful, it doesn't have many of the features that Quicken users have come to expect.
