[geeks] tax software rant

[Phil Stracchino]

Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> Another guy told me about some issues he had, and I wasn't able to
> duplicate it in any way.  We met in a store and walked over to one of
> the computers on display and played with the site, and he said it
> didn't even look like the same site compared to what he saw at home.
> 
> Get this: he runs Windows.  The machine in the store was a Mac, and my
> machine runs Linux.
> 
> It's about time Windows users had to suffer... :)
> 
> Aside:
> 
> Why can't they create a tax web site (or others for that matter), that
> juse use plain HTML forms?
> 
> All the fancy crap just puts a higher burden on your browser, and
> increases the changes of a crash or memory leak.
> 
> All I want is the basic forms, run through them, and be done. I don't
> need spiraling monkey prompts or any of that other "Web 2.0" nonesense.
> 
> If I want a GUI application, I'll go buy a tax program and not deal with
> the latency of the online version.
> 
> (grumble)

I don't use online tax-prep sites.  I don't trust them with my financial
data.


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