Me: I live in Silicon Valley with my wife, child and cat. I have worked at Microsoft since I graduated from College, both in the Macintosh Business Unit on products such as Outlook Express, Entourage, IE, and Virtual PC and in Windows Live on Hotmail, Calendar and People. I am currently a Principal Lead Program Manager on the Windows Live Social Networking team. I basically manage a team of Program Managers responsible for delivering features to support our web and client applications. I've been blogging since 2001 and like to play around with .NET in my spare time working on projects such as dasBlog (the blog that powers this site) and Send to SmugMug (an application for uploading photos to SmugMug). I blog about a number of technology and productivity related topics.
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Since 1999 I’ve done my taxes using TurboTax. I tried TaxCut one year (back in 2000 or so) and compared the results from both programs. TaxCut never asked me what I owed on my previous year’s state tax return, and as such never deducted it from my federal income. When I inquired about this via TaxCut tech support they informed that their software did not in fact support this “feature”. Holey smokes, I returned it for a refund in a jiffee.
Well 6 versions of TurboTax later I wonder if I am missing something. Well today in the mail I got a free shrinkwrapped copy of TaxCut. I guess I will try again this year and see if the software is any better. Clever folks, this is a good way to get me to try it.
Last year, I really appreciated the ability of TurboTax to automatically download my W2 from Microsoft. Saved my time and the possibility of making mistakes. I hope TaxCut can do this as well.