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Article #447Re: PC Mag Tax Software Review
From: pissed off
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 15:22
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 15:22
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"Roger R." <jayraynospam21@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:KzM2a.33$e%3.26779763@newssvr11.news.prodigy.com... > > > Frankly I agree with your position. > > I quit TurboTax this year and wrote them an email letting them know that I > bought their competitor (TaxCut) and why. Got a nice reply explaining their > concerns regarding piracy. Tough. I'm still not going back while they have > that type of copy protection. If I have to, doing my taxes on paper again > wouldn't be that difficult. I only do about 3 or 4 personal returns > nonprofessionally each year. A spreadsheet could do the math and the > what-ifs assuming that I want to do it that way. > > I read one "explanation" or "Excuse" that it was like the registration > MicroSoft requires for XP. True, and I am working to shift to Linux because > of that. I changed chips and motherboards over the weekend and was unable to > boot up the hard drive after because XP didn't recognize the new hardware. I > had to reload the software and, having failed to anticipate the problem and > not backing up the prior material, lost a lot of data. > > The solution is to quit using TurboTax (get their attention with a drop in > revenue) and then complain publicly as much as possible to get others to do > the same. > > Oh, and don't let the Intuit shills stop you from complaining. Intuit is > wrong, not you or me. The same is true for Microsoft, but IMO they have more > of a God complex and it will be harder to get them to listen. Thanks, Roger. As it turns out, I happened to be at Best Buy yesterday and bought Tax Cut federal and state because the combination was priced in such a way as to be a bit cheaper than the state version of Turbo Tax. I hadn't yet downloaded TT's state version, pending resolution of their spyware issue. I had been planning to wait until the end of Feburary to see if Intuit would back off, but the pricing of Tax Cut was attractive enough to dissaude me from waiting. Still, these shills really get to me. They keep saying it's *my fault* that Intuit has spyware in the program and that I'm "immature" for complaining about it. What horseshit.
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