Time will tell.
That assumes they will ignore the potential business from millions of PC users, including enterprise users (businesses), who are staying with Win 7 and 8, enterprise users can get extended updates from MS until 2023, so they say.
As for "upgrading" to Win 10: remember what happened with the Oct 2018 Win 10 update? That's when we gave up on W10 and rolled back to Win 7 several PCs.
Just not worth the risk of losing data (well backed up off-line but still) and having to reinstall the OS which is time consuming. Not to mention the updates that take many hours with many reboots. MS is just acting like a typical monopolist and taking users for granted.
If nobody offers a Win 7 ver of tax software in the future, it'll have to be done on-line using a vpn, not my preference, but no way am I going to install Win 10 ever again. I'd rather use H&R Bloke!
Tell me why software geeks can't make a tax program that is backwards compatible anyway? One could set up a machine to dual boot Win 7 and Win 10, and just use Win 10 for the tax software I suppose, and ignore the Win 10 update problems.
If I run TurboTax off-line (from the internet) on a Win 7 machine, storing data on an encrypted data drive, where is the "risk" from hacking? When I e-file? Unless someone got physical access to my PC, I have no worries. And if someone gets physical access, well Win 10 is not going to save you either.
It seems absurd that Intuit will continue to make a version of TT for Apple MACs, but not for Win 7. MACs apparently are only 10% of the computers in use, whereas currently, Win 7 PCs are more than twice that at 26%.
It just does not make sense...unless MS is paying companies to no longer make Win 7 and 8 software?
MS probably makes a lot of money selling usage data collected from Win 10 machines. Just not something I want to participate in.
