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

[Robert Heller]

At Mon, 4 Aug 2014 10:55:47 -0400 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Robert Heller
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> > > > 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).
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> 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?

The webbased version is 'cross platform'.  The box you buy to run locally is 
mess-windows specific.

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