i-rant

Back to my post on the 11th – war with Quicken. I switched to Quicken for Mac and they don’t support the same banks on the Mac as Windows. They claim the file format is different… You can go back and read more there.

Dear Mr. Charanis,

Thank you for your e-mail regarding Quicken and E*TRADE on the Macintosh.

At this time, Intuit and E*TRADE Financial are working together to determine a method to standardize account data for both the PC and the Macintosh platform. While it does currently work for the PC side, select institutions for the Macintosh version such as E*TRADE Financial and certain mutual fund companies such as Fidelity and Vanguard have yet to be included. We are looking to finalize our compatibility with Quicken by the end of tax time for 2005. As I am the Macintosh specialist on the Tech Support team, you may wish to contact me at 916-858-5090 x5536 M-F 5AM-2PM for more details.

Sincerely,

L. Scott Laronge
Tech Support
M-F 5AM-1:30PM
916-858-5090 x5536
E*TRADE Securities Customer Service
http://www.etrade.com