XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, misc.taxes   
   From: mariasophia@comprehension.com   
      
   Turbo Tax User wrote:   
   > On 28/01/2026 09:06, Maria Sophia wrote:   
   >> Intuit knew they would lose long-standing customers by this action.   
   >> And Intuit opted to enforce this purely punitive action nonetheless.   
   >   
   > Are there any other competitively priced options   
      
   Sure.   
      
   I already bought H&R Block Premier with State for $42.50 on Amazon.   
   It's less than the TurboTax Premier but only by about $7.50.   
      
   Since state e-filing on TurboTax is effectively $15 (with the $10   
   discount), that gets eaten up by the H&R Block $19.95 state efile fee.   
      
   Effectively, they're about two bucks different, which is nothing.   
   I didn't even know all of this until Intuit forced me to go elsewhere.   
      
   > with a user-friendly interface like TurboTax?   
      
   I am reasonably happy with the TurboTax interface as can be seen that I've   
   been using it, seemingly for decades, despite the many warts & flaws.   
       
      
   However, Intuit marketing basically forced me to throw in the towel,   
   so when I looked elsewhere, it seems H&R Block is "just as good".   
      
   I'll write up a review of the H&R block software for the team, but I have   
   no reason to believe it's not as good or even better perhaps than Intuit.   
      
   Blame Intuit marketing for forcing me out the door to even look though.   
      
   > Ultimately, you want a programme that you only need to use once a year.   
   > Have you considered running it in a virtual machine with Windows 11?   
      
   Thanks for that suggestion, which I already fleshed out earlier in the   
   thread, since Microsoft allows unlimited VMs & Intuit allows 5 installs.   
      
   Like everyone on the Windows newsgroup, we're all extremely familiar with   
   VMs, where, I, for one, am sick of them, but I'm on AMD hardware where the   
   graphics doesn't work as well with Hyper-V (which also has port allocation   
   issues which we've discussed in gory detail as VM is an internal port hog).   
      
   If Intuit marketing made the decision that we have only two choices, either   
   buy a new PC or add a virtual machine, I'll instead look elsewhere for s/w.   
      
   The very fact that it's being proposed is an indication that Intuit   
   marketing is hostile to their own customer base, since it's absurd.   
      
   > Once you have filed your tax return, you can delete the virtual machine   
   > so that Windows 11 cannot access your personal data! :).   
      
   When a company is as bad as Intuit is to their customers, just as Netflix   
   was when they deceitfully effectively doubled the price by halving the   
   service more than a decade ago, it's our responsibility to drop them.   
      
   Bear in mind this isn't the first, second or even third time Intuit   
   marketing tried to pull a fast one on its loyal customers.   
      
   This is simply the straw that broke the camel's back in my case.   
    1. Intuit sneakily removed key schedules from Deluxe around tax year 2014   
    2. Intuit sneakily added the Internet requirement around tax year 2022   
    3. Intuit enforced the privacy-robbing account around tax year 2023   
    4. Intuit enforced an unnecessary Windows 11 requirement in tax year 2025   
      
   When you look deeply at Intuit's "stated" reasoning, it falls flat.   
      
   The problem is that it's so obvious Intuit is lying, that just the fact   
   that it's so obvious Intuit is lying shows how little they care about us.   
      
   Intuit clearly thinks we're stupid.   
   If not stupid, then gullible.   
      
   Yet...   
    a. There is no security concern, even to Intuit, who allows   
       business users to use Windows 10 and who doesn't even check   
       if we're on the extended support Microsoft offered for free.   
      
    b. Then Intuit lied about the extent of that support, since it   
       is full security support even as Intuit lied that it wasn't.   
      
    c. Worse, Intuit brazenly lied on their own web site, with that bogus   
       letter from the president where she openly lied saying Microsoft   
       doesn't offer support to personal users - which is another lie.   
      
    d. Then, the real reason Intuit is doing it shows up as they try   
       to strong arm us into the "free" premier upgrade online.   
      
   The fact that Intuit clearly brazenly lied means they don't care.   
   It can't be that they don't know Microsoft supports Windows 10.   
      
   Anyway, I solved the problem by ditching Intuit forever today.   
   I hope half the USA does that so Intuit marketing learns a lesson.   
      
   Intuit can only be hostile to its own customers to a critical point.   
   When the marketing team boils the water too high, we tend to jump.   
      
   Note: The business tax software works on Windows 10, so the decision is   
   purely marketing in origin. It's a ploy to get us to go to online premier.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)