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Too Late Intuit[ Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#1)
by Anonymous User on Thu Oct 16, 2003 at 09:47:07 AM PDT

Too late. I've already gone to another tax package. No product activation software for me--not even Windows XP. Amazing how much mileage I can get out of Win98

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Tax software[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#9)
by Mason on Sun Oct 19, 2003 at 05:45:44 PM PDT

Same here -- I recently received a preorder notice from H&R Block for TaxCut.

It's a bit of a dilemma -- do you reward the company for "listening" to its customers and removing the activation?  If it were Macromedia or Adobe, then I might, but Intuit as a whole is so damn underhanded and frustrating as it is.

I think I'll stick with TaxCut this year and reward them for not using pulling the stunt in the first place.

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Good luck with Win98[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#11)
by Anonymous User on Tue Oct 21, 2003 at 11:19:06 AM PDT

Do you have a game plan in mind for when Microsoft drops support for Windows 98? Eventually there will come a time when you'll need to replace your OS and if future releases have authentication like XP's, what will you do?

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Alternatives[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#13)
by Anonymous User on Tue Oct 21, 2003 at 11:47:34 AM PDT

There's Apple, Linux, Unix, BSD among others. There all always "patches" that an industrious individual can track down. After all, if an "Activation Crack" is good enough for a pirate, it's perfectly acceptable for someone who actually bought the product....

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Activation - Be damned.[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#15)
by Anonymous User on Tue Oct 21, 2003 at 03:42:11 PM PDT

Hell, I'm still using NT 4.0 Wks. That is closer to demise (like man, it's done per MS) than is 98/98SE from MS's point of view, but 2000 with SP2 sounds good to me. And when 2000 requires upgrading to function on this planet - that could at least 6 - 10 years I suspect, and if MS still makes it impossible for me to run a functional OS without activating it, I will find the most recent code to bypass it. MS is making me do this IMHO. If that is not possible, I will go somewhere else. I change my hardware a lot compared to most business PC's and I simply will not deal with this crap and vote with my money when it comes to that stage. Adobe, et al, watch your sales. And then watch the pirated software make a pirouette upwards. Good luck to the idoiots that adopt this piss-poor design with fervor. Shift Key, here I come.

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"Support" -- Who cares?[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#16)
by Reziac on Thu Oct 23, 2003 at 09:34:52 AM PDT

Support now is a fairly meaningless term anyway, unless you're an enterprise with thousands of systems. If a setup is as old as Win95 and NT4, and is still running, obviously it doesn't really NEED "support", and it's apparently not being affected by anything that requires new patches, either.

People act like a program or OS stops working the day its support is dropped, but that's exactly what vendors encourage you to think -- because otherwise, they wouldn't sell an upgrade to those who are otherwise still perfectly happy with older software.

My two main boxes happen to run Win95 and Win98. I don't care if they're "supported" or not, so long as they still do the job I want them to do. Same with the apps I use. I happen to prefer an old browser and an old word processor, and both are good and dead to the world. But they still work and the concept of "support" has nothing to do with it.
~REZ~
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support? support?[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#17)
by Anonymous User on Thu Oct 23, 2003 at 10:02:27 AM PDT

I don't need no steenking support -- never have used MS support. There's tons of good support on the internet. (I'm still using WS6 BTW in dos and command windows in Win98, ME & Win2000 -- which does not require activation -- started using WordStar in--what? 1983?, 84?, who's counting? When the last time I got DOS support?) Ambiguity sorta rulz

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Bye Bye Intuit[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#19)
by Anonymous User on Thu Oct 23, 2003 at 10:24:30 AM PDT

I have also ceased purchasing Intuit products. My old Quicken works just fine for what I need. When it no longer works, I'll either write my own macros or get another program from another vendor. After my experiences with TurboTax and DRM, I won't purchase another product from Inutit.

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