Further cr@ppy coding:
I fired up my Oracle VirtualBox VM to have a look at the About page on TurboTax 2024 to see if the Product Key there might be displayed with hyphens. But I am being forced to upgrade that instance to the latest Release patch before I can even use the app to inspect my already filed returns for that tax year!
This is TERRIBLE design, as there's a very high likelihood that the latest Release patch will change the calculations on my already filed return. Why else would the updater state that "The available updates are marked critical and may affect important functionality"? My only other options here are to "Continue Updating TurboTax 2024" or "Close" the dialog, in which case TurboTax itself is closed. So there's NO WAY to view my previously filed return without first updating TurboTax. Thankfully I saved a PDF copy of the Full return with all Worksheets when I eFiled last year...
FORCING customers to update TurboTax in this way amounts to tampering with legal records. Your software need some serious functional review!
In any case, the basic programming pattern here seems to be "let's take the easy way out and force behavior instead of coding extra steps to allow customers to make choices". That pattern does give me hope, as I seriously doubt that the TurboTax programmers will put any real effort at all into preventing their TY2025 software from running on Windows 10. "Easy way out" most likely means easily defeated or circumvented. 😎
