It’s tax time again, and that means it’s time to use the most aggraviting program in the world, QuickBooks.  Here are a few highlights.

1. I was googling for information on how to order 1099-MISC forms, and came across this helpful page.  Go to that page, and then click on the link to order some forms.  Go ahead, click on it.  Ooh– that link won’t work in your pedestrian little web browser, will it?  No– that link is only for people who are accessing their web help from inside QuickBooks 2009.  They have successfully broken hyperlinks.
2. How’s this for planned obsolescence?  My copy of QuickBooks 2006 will no longer be able to send email after May.  If I upgrade, I can still send email.  Oh.  I guess the spec for sending email over the internet must be changing in May, right?  Huh.  Or maybe I’m shutting down my own SMTP server in May?
3. Okay, let’s upgrade.  They’ve got some big discounts for upgraders.  Huh– they have even bigger discounts for first-time buyers, to the extent that they cost exactly the same. That doesn’t stop them from requiring your license number to purchase your upgrade copy, however.

Ah, well.  Not such a huge hassle for filing my taxes.  Oh– except that these are only the problems I’ve hit in the first 10 minutes.

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