XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, misc.taxes   
   From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2026-01-28 17:30, Frank Slootweg wrote:   
   > [Repost. Someone felt the need to remove the alt.comp.os.windows-11 and   
   > misc.taxes groups. Don't do that, and if you do, *say* so! :-(]   
   >   
   > Dennis  wrote:   
   >> On Wed, 28 Jan 2026 05:20:02 -0500, Maria Sophia   
   >>  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> True to their marketing roots, Intuit apparently says if you buy TurboTax   
   >>> Desktop 2025 and can't install it because you're on Windows 10, Intuit will   
   >>> offer you TurboTax Online Premium at no extra cost, including:   
   >>> 1 federal return   
   >>> 1 state return   
   >>> But if I had wanted to use insecure online software, I never would have   
   >>> purchased the desktop versions in the first place over all these years.   
   >>   
   >> I wouldn't be surprised if at some point they drop the desktop version   
   >> completely.   
   >   
   >    In our country - The Netherlands - we have a web-version already for   
   > twelve years. Just to many platforms to make platform-specific versions   
   > for. What use is a Windows version if people have an Android tablet or   
   > an iPad or a ChromeBook or ... ad infinitum.   
   >   
   >    Like Carlos mentioned for Spain, ours is also free (as in gratis) and   
   > provided by the Dutch tax office ('Belastingdienst').   
   >   
   >    As mentioned, the 'offline' 'privacy' argument is bogus. because they   
   > already have the 'private' information or will get it anyway.   
   >   
   >    N.B. We started with a PC version [1] which was supplied on 3.5"   
   > diskette and when you were done filing your tax return, you just sent   
   > back the diskette in the provided envelope. *Those* were the days! :-)   
   >   
   > [1] The PC version started at least in 2001 (I still have the backup to   
   > prove it! :-)), but perhaps earlier. Not sure if there was only a   
   > Windows version and a Linux version or perhaps earlier also a DOS   
   > version.   
      
   Yep.   
      
   Here they started with a Windows version only, but soon changed to a   
   Java software that should be able to run on any computer. And then, they   
   changed to an online version that did not need us to install anything at   
   all.   
      
   --   
   Cheers, Carlos.   
   ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;   
      
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