Windows 10 End of Life

While this is not specifically an MS Windows 10 issue, it is related since Intuit is disabling Turbotax under Window 10. I have been using Turbotax for years and it is one of the reasons for retaining an MS Windows partition on my computer. Turbotax is an excellent product, but Intuit is a despicable company.

Disabling Turbotax under MS Windows 10 raises a proverbial conspiracy question concerning Microsoft. Is Microsoft quietly encouraging vendors to "disable" products when they are on computers using MS Windows 10?
Intuit has been phasing out their desktop versions of TurboTax and QuickBooks. They want everyone to subscribe to the online versions. We had 4 customers running integrated Access/QB apps and we had to rewrite the apps to support DotNet interop using API's to talk to QBO. All other accouting soft vendors, like Sage, have been phasing out their desktop products to force users to subscribe to their online versions. Microsoft started the whole trend with O365. That's the ulterior motive, recurring income with subscription, less costs having to support multiple versions, they now have your data, and you're locked into their world.
 
PS: On my computer, MS Windows 10, was upgraded to MS Windows 11 by "accident". I wasn't paying attention to what the update message said so I went ahead and clicked OK only to find out that I was upgraded to MS Windows 11. Everything went smoothly, so there appears to be no issue.
Fingers crossed 🤞
 
But in that position, much harder to type.
✌🏻how about now?... I'm trying my hardest not to fall into that Win11 upgrade trap. I changed registry settings to inhibit those tricky upgrade notifications, but they still popup. My Win10 desktop anyway does not meet Win11 install requirements. It's also real tricky how MS tries to get you to create an online account when adding new users. I imagine as time moves on, newer software versions will by design not run on Win10, forcing users to acquire Win11 devices. All hardware software vendors have substantially jacked up their prices to greedy money grab levels. I wonder when Access runtimes will no longer be free? In the early 1980's I used to pay $120 per single RM/COBOL runtime, and $395 for the 1 to 5 users runtime on the Radio Shack Tandy16 Xenix platform.
 
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As stated before, I would have stayed with Win10 except that the machine I was using was 15 years old and suffered massive failures in controllers and system fans. It was time to let go, and let go, I did. The price of letting go was that the replacement system came with Win11 pre-installed and it was less headache to go with the flow and stay with Win11 rather than try to roll back to Win10.

Your observation about increasing costs is noted and I certainly don't disagree. I'm fortunate that I'm retired and my hobby only requires a decent non-subscription copy of Office, which I got fairly cheaply.
 

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