Most preparers have made the switch to Windows. After the next tax season, it's going to be very hard for most companies that still support DOS to continue to offer it. This year, TaxSimple and Laser Systems dropped DOS for 1999 tax software and the list will surely shrink for the 2000 crop. Even among vendors that still support DOS, the number of preparers using the DOS operating system has declined dramatically. Our entire library is 32-bit.
Customers choose which interface they want to use.
We don't necessarily track that. Oddly, one of the new issues that has emerged is that size counts. The mopping up continues in the consolidation of tax software companies. Drake Software acquired TaxShop, while Intuit purchased the customer lists of TaxByte and CompuCraft Data Services. Only ExacTax and CCH still offer traditional service bureau processing.