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Review by M Cox
I have read nearly all of the negative reviews and I cannot understand why these people are having so much trouble. My experience is the complete opposite. I have a late model HP 17 inch laptop computer with a 64 bit Intel chip, an eMachines computer with a 32⁄64 bit AMD processor and a home built Intel i7 64 bit system with a Gigabyte Extreme motherboard. I have Windows 7 running on all my computers all 64 bit except for the eMachines computer.
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I got TurboTax Deluxe only to find there is no Schedule C for small businesses. So I gave it to my daughter. I’ve used TurboTax each and every year it has been available. Now I had to pay more than double for this version. I’m buying H&R Block software next year. It’s not enough that TurboTax has such a commanding market share, but now extreme greed has appeared. Some marketing genius decided to divide up the product into pieces to alienate all but the most basic customers.
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Now how can a review get a dozen thumbs down in less than a day and then suddenly stop? I believe I was targeted. Seems very suspicious to me. Anyway, my review follows.
Schedule C is missing from this year’s Deluxe version. I had to purchase the expensive Home and Business version currently priced a penny less than $80 to get it. It was included last year. Not happy about that - minus one star.
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The two main components of Corel Draw X8 that I will use are the Raw Photo Editor and the vector drawing program. This product feels like two programs that I used a lot. One was a vector based application called Arts & Letters that I used a lot many years ago. The Corel Draw drawing application is very intuitive for me except I had to explore the menu to learn which tool does what.
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I have been using Fusion 4 on my MacBook Pro (OS 10.6.8, Snow Leopard) for quite a while now. I agree with other reviewers that this version is not enough of an upgrade to make it worthwhile to purchase if you already have Fusion 4. However, if you don’t already have the software then this is not only a very worthwhile purchase, but essential in the business world.
Fusion 5 works great, but compared to version 4, there are not enough new features to warrant purchasing a new software package.
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When I imported my Quicken 2012 backup file into this new 2015 Home and Business application it appeared it just ruined decades of faithful record keeping dating back to 1992. Thankfully I had the foresight to save a backup file and loaded it onto my laptop computer with Quicken 2012 installed. I read the negative reviews extensively, but I just could not believe they were accurate or true. It was the one and only reason I bought this 2015 version.
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It seems about all the video editor software offerings have very much the same style user interface now. And I think about all the major players have finally created 64-bit compatible code to make the rendering task much faster. And now they are all offering support for the latest XAVC S video editing standard for the consumer market announced by Sony in April 2013. Its a slight notch below the highest 4K XAVC resolution of 4096 2160.
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The overall style is fill in the blanks in a progressive manner. It is divided up into five general sections:nnWillnHealth Care Directive (Living Will & Power of AttorneynDurable Power of Attorney for FinancesnFinal ArrangementsnInformation for Caregivers and SurvivorsnnAt the end of the first section (Will), it offers to do a search for local attorneys to review your will. I live near Houston and there was only one estate planning attorney on their list.
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This covers nearly everything you need in a home business or business in general, but it doesn’t go in-depth on most anything. But for the money, it’s a reasonably good deal. You might be able to find most of these forms free on the internet, but it’s really nice to have it all in one package so you don’t have to spend a lot of time researching a particular topic. And if you do find a free form on the internet, would you trust it?
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I wish I were more artistic and had more patience for tedious work. However, I still enjoy trying to create interesting artwork. The mirror function helps even the non-artist to appear to have some natural skills. To me, this is the best feature I’ve ever seen included in professional art creating software. I like using the layering technique a lot, too. You do need a tablet to draw. A mouse just doesn’t work for me.