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by flomo 37 days ago
A big feature for Microsoft is you have to pay them lots of money to still run supported Windows 10. Are you paying Intuit too? Probably not.

I say again this is really a filter against "high support" customers because most of them are not technical and running derelict setups.
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danaris 37 days ago
That's not a technical reason.
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flomo 37 days ago
Calls to tech support are by accounting defintion. So that makes it easy to draw the line somewhere, and cut off groups of negative-value customers. Its 2026 and times are tough baby.
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swiftcoder 37 days ago
> Its 2026 and times are tough baby

Tough even for firms that have regulatory capture in a ~$48 billion market?

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flomo 37 days ago
You know it as well as I, no gotcha here buddy.

It's getting tough for shitters with some old ass legacy PC who depend on online services. Hopefully they were smart enough to understand they were living on borrowed time.

edit, also there are government subsided smartphones if you need one.

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swiftcoder 36 days ago
> old ass legacy PC

A bunch of the unsupported PCs aren't even that old.

I bought a Ryzen 5 1600X in 2017, which is noticeably higher performance than the basic tier of processors supported by windows 11, but it's not on the supported list, and you have to bypass the installer to get windows 11 running.

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flomo 35 days ago
Ok, lets start planning its 10th birthday party.
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anonymousiam 36 days ago
My PCs are modern. I (used to) run TurboTax in a VM. I've got three VMs with different older versions of Windows, that contain about 20 years of Tax data. It's more secure to keep my tax data in VMs that I don't use for anything else. I do have a Windows 11 partition on my PC, but I haven't booted it in over a year, and I have no need to.

I don't think I'll ever need to make a Windows 11 VM.

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flomo 35 days ago
Cool, a super technical dude like you can just spin a secure Win11 VM to run TurboTax then. You probably have a bash script or something. What are you complaining about.
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danaris 36 days ago
I mean, sure; you can come up with some kind of justification to call just about anything "a technical reason".

But there's no genuinely technical reason—one you don't have to twist yourself into pretzels over—that fairly ordinary software, working fine on Win11, would not work on Win10.

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flomo 35 days ago
Easy question because you need to evaluate every dependency for Win10 compatibility, Win10 bugs that MS fixed in Win11, running unsupported Win10 CI somehow, QA testing team for Windows 10 (programmers won't do this)... and on and on.

All for an dead operating system. I guess this works in your basement mind where people work for free or something.

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