Are you forced to buy windows in order to solve certain tasks on the internet e.g. like certain banktasks and to update garmin gps maps and other

[Coll-Barth, Michael]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Heller


> > > I think if there is one place where using Windows might be
> > > justified, it's studying Windows, to be fair!
> > >
> > > There used to be Novell Moonlight for some things, but it's
> > > long-unmaintained now. Doesn't work in modern Firefox versions,
> AFAIK.
> > >
> > That is true, in fact the Silverlight site said for other OSs (read
> > Linux) go to the Moonlight site.   No one, including my vendor can
> tell
> > me what silverlight is for.  I read somewhere it is for "multi-
> media".
> 
> I believe Silverlight is M$'s 'flash' replacement, except that, unlike
> Macromedia / Adobe, M$ is not providing players for ALL O/Ss (eg
> Linux).

I thought Silverlight was required for Netflix as well.  I've gotten Netflix to work under Wine.

As for questions regarding Taxes, doesn't TurboTax work on any browser with data saved on Intuit's servers?  I have never used it.  Has anyone had a experience with it?