I signed up for the online version and after about 3 hours and 15 crashes I wish I had not. There is no easy was to move between sections and to get to specific portions of your return. Most of the time the website would just spin and I would need to open a new window and log back in. One time I was prompted with an error message that said the server was going down for maintenance and all the data I had entered went missing for about 12 hours. It felt as if it was being restored from a tape drive. I have used Quicken for 20 years and Turbotax for the last 4 or 5. I can't help but feel there is so much technology debt in both products that they can never be snappy modern day applications. At least the support person was helpful after I waited for about 40 minutes to get to her.
I have used turbo tax for over 8 years and wouldn't use anything else. I have also turned my family into turbo taxers . The ease and clarity of the turbo tax has made it easy for me to file my business and personal all in one program. This was the first year i had to get help from a rep, He was so helpful and help to put my mind at ease.
What's great about it: easy to understand, helpful hints
the major program body works well. But the instuctions pages when accessed leads to program crashing. very annoying. Software crashed almost 10 times while doing taxes!!!!
What's great about it: smartness
What's not so great: program crashes, no auto save routine available