[lug] Intuit's Shenanigans

[Dhruva B. Reddy]

Oops.  Guess I should have tried that before assuming.  It's still
overzealous of them.  The only reason for this that I can think of is
that they don't want to risk any funkiness from an untested browser
(definitely understandable).

On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 02:21:50PM -0600, quoth Warren Sanders:
> Dhruva B. Reddy wrote:
> 
> >If any of you have tried to use Intuit's "web" applications, you may
> >have found that they block all but their "approved" browsers, including
> >IE and Netscape 4.x for Windows and Mac.
> >
> >I just sent them an admittedly taunting note:
> >
> >"I thought you would be interested to know about my business that you
> >have lost this tax season.
> >
> >I have always been highly impressed with your products, in general.  I
> >had hoped to use your TurboTax web application to prepare my personal
> >taxes for 2001.
> >
> >Unfortunately, you have unnecessarily blocked all but a select few
> >platform/browser combinations.  Since my Linux machine running Galeon
> >(which is based on Mozilla, as is Netscape 6) is one of those blocked, I
> >cannot use your services.
> >
> >I'm sure TaxAct (http://www.taxact.com/) would like to thank you for
> >this policy."
> >
> >You can do the same...
> >https://orderupdate.intuit.com/corporate.asp
> >
> >They also have an application that they call 'QuickBooks for the Web',
> >which the last time I checked was more appropriately named 'QuickBooks
> >for IE', since the *only* client it allowed is IE for Windows.
> >
> >Dhruva
> >
> 
> I used their turbotax last year and had to use the old Netscape browser. 
> This year I tried all my browsers and forgot about Netscape (4.78) even 
> being installed.  Well anyway, it works for me.  I can understand your 
> frusteration, but was just happy to be able to still get there through 
> Linux even tho not with my favorite Galeon.
> 
> -- 
> Warren Sanders
> http://MontanaLinux.Org
>