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.
