XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, misc.taxes   
   From: mariasophia@comprehension.com   
      
   Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   >> The only idiots are people buying something that is clearly incompatible   
   >> with their needs and then complain about it.   
   >   
   > Does the box clearly say in reasonable sized lettering that it is   
   > Windows 11 only?   
      
   Hi Carlos,   
      
   I'll let the users judge for themselves so I snapped this photo just now:   
       
      
   Be advised that this never happened before, so the user isn't expecting it.   
      
   Consider it kind of like buying an Intuit toaster and not thinking to check   
   that it suddenly requires a smart-home hub that it never required before,   
   and that it has no reason for requiring it, and that no other toaster but   
   the Intuit toaster enforces the arbitrary smart-home hub requirement, and,   
   that there is no earthly reason why it would ever need that smart-home hub.   
      
   You wouldn't even think of looking at the fine print to figure that out.   
   Remember, I've been buying Deluxe every year at the January sale price.   
       
      
   Note that the packaging doesn't differ from the packaging over the years,   
   so, again, nothing stands out that you would even "think" to check since   
   there's no earthly reason for Windows 11 to be a requirement anyway.   
      
   It never occurred to me that only Intuit forced such a requirement that it   
   doesn't need, and that it has no earthly reason for enforcing upon us.   
      
   >>> 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 remove support for out-of-date platforms.   
   >   
   > Windows 10 is still under official support. M$ changed minds.   
      
   I was hoping that Intuit was smart enough to look for the ESU keys in the   
   Windows registry, but as far as I can tell, it's a dumb hard-coded check.   
   >   
   > Otherwise, it is somewhat ridiculous for a software to demand a certain   
   > version of the operating system if there is not actual need.   
      
   As far as I can tell from extensive searching, it's an arbitrary decision.   
      
   But I'm not the only arbiter of fact on this Usenet group, so I will ask:   
    Q: What on earth does TurboTax need Windows 11 for?   
    A: ?   
   --   
   Any company that makes this great of a change without being very clear   
   about it isn't a company that appears to care about their customer base.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)