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Have you seen our tax code lately, or the Internal Revenue Service? Forget proprietary software. Try proprietary documents, forms, and methods of submission!
by Overtonwindow 11y ago
Have you seen our tax code lately, or the Internal Revenue Service? Forget proprietary software. Try proprietary documents, forms, and methods of submission!
- throwaway2016a 11y agoI was going to say that... I love it when a Government site makes me download a MS Word or Excel file. So I need to either buy a Microsoft product or trust OSS solutions that often mangle the document (through no fault of their own... reverse engineering a proprietary file format is difficult and displaying it the exact same is even harder).
- matthewrhoden1 11y agoWhile you can't edit, you can view for free: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=4 https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=4 https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=10 https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=10
- throwaway2016a 11y agoIt's good to know that exists. For what it's worth, I have a Mac so those won't work. I don't have the time right now to search microsoft.com for a Mac version so I reserve judgment until then :)
- rz2k 11y agoMicrosoft provides Windows images you can run in VirtualBox if you want to try it out. https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/mac/ https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/v...
- daveloyall 11y agoObligatory "That's gratis, not libre!"
- slrz 11y agoEh. Supported Operating System Windows 2000 Service Pack 4, Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1, Windows Vista, Windows XP Service Pack 2 Windows 7 So to view these propriatary document formats I'd first have to buy and set up a whole proprietary operating system?