You could pay the money and have them do it for you, or you can do it yourself. My state offers a free online efile service that I used this past weekend, and it worked great. (used the H&R Block free filing for my fed return) Check with your state as they are likely to have something similar.
A great innovator is one that doesn't know the meaning of "good enough." It may be "good enough" for most, but is that because it really is good enough or because most people don't know it can be better? If we stopped at "good enough", where would software be, especially open source software?
Maybe there isn't a vast market for this, but definately will be some(including me) that find this to be useful, especially when our productivity increases, thanks to a faster search, when we just can't remember where we put a paticular file. Even if it isn't a huge gain, it is a gain and makes our lives easier. Isn't that what software is for, anyway?
Very very few. I've got firefox installed on my family computer. Despite them getting infected with adware and spyware through IE, none of them want to use firefox. I've asked them many times, and even gone to the point of deleting IE, but their resillence to use anything else forced me to put it back on (amongst other reasons).
Do you know what their interests are online? If you can find out what they like to do, you can show them how Firefox makes it better.
Let me give you an example. I got my entire family, including my mom!, using Firefox, but it wasn't by removing IE and saying, "Firefox is better."
I did that many times, though, and got frustrated because each time no one would switch. But then one day I was browsing a news site and opening a bunch of links in new tabs and I realized how I could get my family to switch. My mom loves to go read news sites, and message boards and I realized that this would be a perfect use for tabs. So one day I installed it on her computer, had her come over then I opened a couple of her favorite sites then demonstrated how to open news articles in a new tab. She was an instant convert and hasn't gone back since. She even commented that it was much faster, and easier to use.
If you really want your family to switch, I don't think just telling them it's better is going to make them jump ship and use Firefox instead of IE. What we need to be doing, IMHO, is looking at our target audience, seeing how they surf the web, then show them some way that Firefox makes it better. People will switch if you give them a reason and make it painless. Install Firefox for them, show them how to use it for what they do, then let them sit down and use it with you and I would bet that you would have an instant convert.:)
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>>How do you do your state taxes?
You could pay the money and have them do it for you, or you can do it yourself. My state offers a free online efile service that I used this past weekend, and it worked great. (used the H&R Block free filing for my fed return) Check with your state as they are likely to have something similar.
>>IP issues aside, it's > 10 years old, when code gets that old, it's due for a good overhaul, if nothing else. Why? Does code rust?
Every email program does this, and good enough.
A great innovator is one that doesn't know the meaning of "good enough." It may be "good enough" for most, but is that because it really is good enough or because most people don't know it can be better? If we stopped at "good enough", where would software be, especially open source software?
Maybe there isn't a vast market for this, but definately will be some(including me) that find this to be useful, especially when our productivity increases, thanks to a faster search, when we just can't remember where we put a paticular file. Even if it isn't a huge gain, it is a gain and makes our lives easier. Isn't that what software is for, anyway?
I usually read Slashdot while on the throne.
I would look for them to off-load other products not related to their core competencies...
Microsoft just giving up on everything? No way...
Very very few. I've got firefox installed on my family computer. Despite them getting infected with adware and spyware through IE, none of them want to use firefox. I've asked them many times, and even gone to the point of deleting IE, but their resillence to use anything else forced me to put it back on (amongst other reasons).
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Do you know what their interests are online? If you can find out what they like to do, you can show them how Firefox makes it better.
Let me give you an example. I got my entire family, including my mom!, using Firefox, but it wasn't by removing IE and saying, "Firefox is better."
I did that many times, though, and got frustrated because each time no one would switch. But then one day I was browsing a news site and opening a bunch of links in new tabs and I realized how I could get my family to switch. My mom loves to go read news sites, and message boards and I realized that this would be a perfect use for tabs. So one day I installed it on her computer, had her come over then I opened a couple of her favorite sites then demonstrated how to open news articles in a new tab. She was an instant convert and hasn't gone back since. She even commented that it was much faster, and easier to use.
If you really want your family to switch, I don't think just telling them it's better is going to make them jump ship and use Firefox instead of IE. What we need to be doing, IMHO, is looking at our target audience, seeing how they surf the web, then show them some way that Firefox makes it better. People will switch if you give them a reason and make it painless. Install Firefox for them, show them how to use it for what they do, then let them sit down and use it with you and I would bet that you would have an instant convert.
MHO, of course...
Hotmail/MSN will delete all your mail after 30 days of inactivity.
"[It] uses APIs from 3 native DLLs to avoid crashing applications."
Viruses are sure getting considerate!