I agree with Andy,
If you read through all the posts in this thread, it is assumed by users that there is some time consuming process on TurboTax launch that needs to access Intuit servers for something.. Licensing or update information is suspected. However, users feel that such needless delays are unwarranted. They can be done as a background process or not at all. These delays are not present in other similar programs, nor locally running programs like MS Office, etc.
This has gone on for years as this thread demonstrates. It is clear that either..
Intuit has inept programmers (which I hope is not true)
User input from the community is ignored (I have no evidence other than this thread)
Or there is some true Intuit requirement for the the delay which is not shared with its users.
I continue to use TurboTax, and tolerate the seemingly needless delay, but would prefer to see some official response as to why users must be inconvenienced this way.
