Discussion:Why is Lacerte so different from ProSeries
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| 3 April 2007 | |
| Since I have been on this board TA, I have noticed that there seems to be a big difference between Lacerte and ProSeries as far as input screens and it seem everything else. WHY, they are both developed by Intuit? I started using MacInTax way back in the early 1980's before Intuit bought them out. | |
| April 3, 2007 | |
| I believe that Intuit bought Lacerte a few years ago, and I'm assuming Intuit kept the format the same. I'm not sure about what I just said, because I've never used Lacerte, but this is what my memory is telling me. | |
Michaelstar (talk|edits) said: | 3 April 2007 |
| Deback - your correct - Lacerte went the way that most tax soft ware has gone - bought out by someone else. I started with a company called Jettax in 1986 which was bought out by Lacrete. Can not even remember the batch software b4 that. I then went to a tax software called ITS which I beta tested for a number of years. I called myself the "midnight beta tester". They were bought out by a company (that I do not think is around anymore) and I then went to Lacerte.
Lacerte as a tax software seems very intitutive to me which made the transition easy. | |
| April 3, 2007 | |
| LaCerte's roots are in DOS land, the beanie group of the 70's. And as you note, ProSeries' roots are in the finely polished and finished Mac. *running* BUT IT's TRUE!!!! | |
Death&Taxes (talk|edits) said: | 3 April 2007 |
| I did Proseries DOS version my first three years and watched each year as the Windows version kept being improved while DOS languished. I had no love for DOS but my partner did; when she retired I switched. | |
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