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

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 15 September 2014 09:54:05 Nathan Dorfman did opine
And Gene did reply:
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 11:31 AM, user1 <bqz69 at telia.com> wrote:
> > Are you forced to buy windows in order to solve certain tasks on the
> > internet e.g. like certain bank tasks and to update garmin gps maps
> > etc
> 
> Just out of curiosity -- what bank tasks are you referring to?
> 
> I've used a ton of different (mostly American) banks and other
> financial services over the years and have never had any kind of
> problem using their websites from Linux, including: Bank of America,
> Chase, Capital One, Citi, Barclays, Fidelity, Schwab, American
> Express, and probably some others I can't remember anymore.
> 
> Now, I'm sure someone out there can find one or two things they really
> can only do on Windows. Personally, I have a Windows installation in a
> VM just in case this happens to me, and I haven't booted it since
> 2010. So I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that it's far from
> the common case.
> 
> -nd.

I won't name the bank, but they use ActiveX on the front page And they 
have about 5 digits worth of my money.  Clicking on the login button 
didn't work, so I demanded and got a link that goes straight to the login 
page.  And I was doing it all that way, but they could not seem to 
maintain my ability to print a statement with dates, so I blew up and went 
back to paper statements until they could do that.  You could see the 
dates on screen, but they would not print.  What the hell good is a 
statement with no dates?

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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