PSA: Yahoo Briefcase is shutting down on March 30th

[Argo]

Not sure if this was mentioned already, but it was a surprise to me when I saw the notice.

 

[theflyingpig]

This does not affect me, as I have never used the service in my entire life.

 

[kranky]

And people wonder why I don't want to use the online version of TurboTax or Quicken.

 

[Codewiz]

Originally posted by: kranky
And people wonder why I don't want to use the online version of TurboTax or Quicken.

Intuit makes so much money off turbotax, they are never going anywhere. Comparing the revenue stream Intuit has to yahoo is just silly. Yahoo is at the mercy of advertisers, while intuit is guaranteed to make money until the gov't decides to get rid of taxes.

Not to mention after I do my taxes online at turbotax, I save it to PDF for my own archiving.

 

[TallBill]

Originally posted by: kranky
And people wonder why I don't want to use the online version of TurboTax or Quicken.

Why, because you don't have a printer or the ability to save a pdf file?

 

[Farang]

Originally posted by: theflyingpig
This does not affect me, as I have never used the service in my entire life.

Thanks I was worried

 

[Sphexi]

Thanks for the reminder, I had a few files uploaded from 2002 I wanted to keep. I think I even had some Starcraft scenarios up there.

Nice.

 

[kranky]

Originally posted by: TallBill

Originally posted by: kranky
And people wonder why I don't want to use the online version of TurboTax or Quicken.

Why, because you don't have a printer or the ability to save a pdf file?

Besides the fact that a PDF is no substitute for having data in the Quicken program itself so you can search/filter/report on the fly, I want to be able to examine the data in the tax program itself in case I need to verify what combination of things I entered were boiled down to a single entry on the return. Basically, I want to own the files, not be dependent on a 3rd party who may or may not feel like maintaining them.