Mac OS X Lion Application Compatibility: Rosetta Applications

Dave

13 years ago

We’re not trying to annoy you with duplicate content, but we want to emphasize the fact that Lion does not support Rosetta applications. We covered this in depth in a previous article. If you’re a long-time Mac user, you’ll probably have applications that will not work with Lion from a fundamental level.

Rosetta applications cannot, will not run on Lion. We heard murmurs of third-party enablers for Rosetta on Lion, but the application developers and Apple will not support any Rosetta applications on Lion. Here are a few applications we’ve seen on some of our machines:

Quicken 2007
FileMaker 6
FileMaker 8
Adobe CS1
Microsoft Office 2004
Older versions of software

Please look at our older article to make sure your business-critical applications are compatible with Lion before hitting the buy button. If you’re wondering about a specific application, there’s a great website out there with a lot of information about Lion compatibility: RoaringApps.com.