Bye Bye, QuickBooks for Mac

Dropping QuickBooks for Mac has nothing to do with Intuit's continued support for the Microsoft Windows QuickBooks editions. Though Intuit is focusing a bigger share of development resources on QuickBooks Online these days, new versions of the desktop editions are being actively developed and released every year. (An estimated 4 to 5 million people use one of the QuickBooks desktop editions—either Pro, Premier, or Enterprise.)

You could use the cloud-based QuickBooks Online—it will work on any computer with an Internet browser. On a Mac that includes Safari, Chrome, Firefox, and others.

Instead of QuickBooks Online, some people prefer the quicker operation and more diverse/mature features of the QuickBooks for Windows editions. You can use QuickBooks Pro, Premier, or Enterprise on a Macintosh if you run one of the Microsoft Windows virtual environments available for the Mac, such as Parallels or Wine (two of the many which are available).

Another option is to run QuickBooks on a cloud-based hosting service such as Right Networks, Cloud9, or MyQuickCloud. For a monthly fee, these give you access to a privately accessible (password protected) Microsoft Windows environment on a cloud-based server computer, where you can run any of the QuickBooks for Windows editions—and other Windows software too, if you want—remotely over an Internet connection.

Like QuickBooks Online, this option gives you "anywhere" access to QuickBooks, but it lets you use one of the QuickBooks desktop editions instead of QuickBooks Online.

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