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   Message 4,135 of 4,852   
   Chris to Lynn McGuire   
   Re: What on earth does TurboTax need Win   
   28 Jan 26 08:35:00   
   
   XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, misc.taxes   
   From: ithinkiam@gmail.com   
      
   Lynn McGuire  wrote:   
   > On 1/27/2026 6:37 PM, Maria Sophia wrote:   
   >> I bought TurboTax at Costco today for $55.99 - $11 = $44.99 + 0% tax.   
   >>   
   >> At home I try to install it on Windows 10, and it says it won't load.   
   >> Apparently it needs Windows 11.   
   >> Why?   
   >> What on earth could TurboTax need that only Windows 11 can supply?   
   >>   
   >> Is there a known workaround?   
   >   
   > Are these people idiots ?   
      
   The only idiots are people buying something that is clearly incompatible   
   with their needs and then complain about it.   
      
   > They are going to lose half of their user   
   > base.  Windows 10 is still the prevalent home pc software.   
      
   Windows 11 has been around over four years and win10 was officially EOL's   
   last October. Totally not unreasonable for a financial organisation to   
   remove support for out-of-date platforms.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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