@chlpatent wrote:
There are probably still going to be millions of Win 7 users who don't switch to Win 10 by 2020 tax season, and large and small business users using Enterprise versions can pay to extend the Win 7 support through the MicroSoft program "Extended Security Update program."
So if Intuit goes through with their announced plan to no longer make a Win 7 version for 2020 tax year, they are going to lose that business or have it shift to an on-line TurboTax version, like users of Linux do.
QuickBooks 2020 will also run on Win 7 as long as one has it up to date (Service Pack 1) according to the Intuit system requirements page, but there it says "only supported until January 2020" whatever that means.
This same type of issue arose when the Windows dropped support for XP and Vista. Even though TurboTax software would run on XP or Vista in the year Windows dropped support, the following year TurboTax would not run on an XP or Vista OS. As happens in many cases users either upgraded their OS or used the TurboTax online editions.
TurboTax will probably also not work on a Windows 8.0/8.1 OS after Windows drops support for that OS in the near future.
