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Summary: TaxCut Next Year
Review: I've used TurboTax since 1986 and this is the last year. I would rate this product a 5 except for Intuit's activation scheme so I'll rate it a 1. While I had no problem activating TT using the internet, I now find that I'm going to have to reformat my hard drive in the immediate future. This will require that I reactivate the product to continue to use it. The same will be true if I change out the HD or buy a new computer. Also, each time I use the program, my registry is modified on the next boot which is a direct result of Intuit's activation scheme. I haven't let others use my copy of TT but I feel like I'm being punished anyway.
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Summary: C-Dilla ... protection included
Review: ...Turbo Tax now installs the C-dilla safedisc protection software when you install it. If you remove TT, c-dilla stays, it does not remove it. C-dilla can prevent your cd-rw from burning copy protected cd's, it can send download logs, cd-burn info, etc out to 3rd parties. Intuit states that the version of c-dilla they include does not do this, but, yeah, right! I uninstalled TT but still had c-dilla starting up as a service everytime WinXP booted. I had to manually delete files & registry entries to clean it out. After 5 years with Turbo Tax, I'll be trying something else this year, probably the free TaxAct.
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Summary: Never another Intuit product
Review: I've been a loyal user of Quicken, Quickbooks, and Turbotax for over ten years. The [program] included in TurboTax 2002 has now forever turned me against any Intuit product. That it installs secretly and does not uninstall when you remove Turbotax is incidious. It keeps running, consuming memory and watching your PC (they claim it does not gather information about your PC .. huh? .. if it did not, how could it know you've upgraded your PC?). Shame on them.
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Summary: Quality Control?
Review: I purchased TurboTax Deluxe for the fourth year in a row this year. When I went to install the program from the CD it turned out to be an AUDIO CD OF MEXICAN MUSIC! Bizarre. My subsequent web search to determine if this was a widespread problem enlightened me to Intuit's new copy protection scheme and spyware installation. Unacceptable. I will be using Tax Cut.
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Summary: TT 2002 - Great Functionality - Bad Karma
Review: I purchased both TurboTax and TaxCut Deluxe this year. Both are close to free after rebates, so why not try both and see what the differences are? As a long time TurboTax purchaser and user, I am very fond of the comfortable interface and found TaxCut's a little different - not bad, but not what I was used to. After using both, I still prefer the TT interface, but moving to TC will not pose any problems. Despite my fondness for the interface, this is likely to be the final year I use TurboTax due to the CDILLA issues already well documented and discussed here and elsewhere on the internet. It is unfortunate for Intuit that they failed to trust their customers enough and resorted to such methods, but that was their choice and they will have to judge whether the backlash was worth the move. TaxCut does everything that TurboTax does and offered a State version much sooner that TurboTax (which is due on or about 9 January 2003). My tax preparation software choice next year will be TaxCut (unless they follow in Intuit's footsteps!).
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Summary: Never had an issue in 8 years of using TurboTax
Review: As a firm believer in anti piracy of software and other intellectual capital I have no problems at all with activation on one computer. Keeping a data backup (which is completely trivial) is a fundamental of computer use and avoids the need to install on multiple computers. Just look for the .txf file and save it to a floppy disk or one of dozens of online or offline means. For an [inexpensibe] product if there really is a need to have on more than one computer I'd suggest buying another copy. I worry that many of those who have concerns with activation on only one computer really want to share the software with others. This is illegal and I don't blame software companies for wanting to protect their IP. (No, I don't work for Intuit, but have been a happy customer using TurboTax since 1994).
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Summary: Boycott Intuit
Review: "Product Activation" is a joke. ... Intuit is paranoid and slaps this "anti-piracy" feature on TurboTax so once installed on one computer that's it. No backups. Customer service wont work unless you give your first born and your life story. Forget it. Don't buy anything from ...Intuit!
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Summary: 6 years of using Turbo Tax ended now :-(
Review: The title says it all. This is another case where they put their own greed in front of customer needs. This comment is not about the product itself. The product registration (or whatever they call it) makes it impossible for me to use. Brought it and returned it.
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Summary: Luckly we have alternatives
Review: Unlike Windows XP. Hard to believe Intuit requires more nonsense steps to use the software than Windows XP. I have purchased and used TT since 94 and I have changed my computers for five times. In addition I usually installed a copy on my home PC and a copy on my office PC. Sometime my wife will installed a copy on her office PC so she could help to input data. It is time for me to try something else though I used to like TT a lot. Buy Intuit!
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Summary: I am returning this junk...
Review: I hate this new activation process from Intuit... I will not allow any hidden software on my pc. I am returning this junk to the store. Bye-bye, Intuit... Whatever advantages they had over TaxCut in the past are overshadowed by this stupid C-Dilla thing.
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