TurboTax in Wine

[Mike Bydalek]

Ted Gould wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 15:06 -0700, Charles Jones wrote:
>   
>> Ted Gould wrote:
>>     
>>> So I'm getting ready to start the fun ol' taxes.  Anyone tried TurboTax
>>> 2007 in Wine yet?  Wine seems to be getting better and better, and so
>>> I'm kinda curious if it can do TurboTax this year.	
>>>       
>> I've found the online version of turbotax (at turbotax.com) to work just 
>> as well as the media version.  No emulation required :)
>>     
>
> So, it seems like most people are doing their taxes online.  I guess
> that still makes me a little bit uncomfortable.  I realize part of the
> irony here.  Am I just getting old?  Should I drink my prune juice and
> be happy with Google Docs and online taxes?  Or, is there a large group
> of folks using "another OS" to do their taxes?
>
>   
I'm not sure if I would say "most people" in this case.  Sure, I'll bet 
it's more than it was 5 or even 2 years ago, but I'm willing to bet 
there are a lot of people out there who don't trust corporations with 
their personal financial information - including me.  Banks are a 
different story, but would you really give your social to say Adobe or 
Microsoft?

I just run an instance of XP in a vm to do my TurboTax and Quicken 
(among other misc things) because quite frankly, there isn't anything 
else out there that can compete for Linux.  Sure, I'm not a big Intuit 
fan either as I sometimes wonder if Quickbooks was built just to annoy 
me, but the reality is, it works ... well.

Just my $0.02.

BTW, I'm *really* looking forward to trying out the new kvm stuff so I 
can move off the free vmware-server I have running ;)

-Mike
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