You are correct of course about cutting out the resellers.
As a software designer though I can say that the online code is in a different language than the CD code. And it takes a long time to unit test every feature of a software suite, plus record all the videos...
I suspect Intuit was caught with thier pants down as they transition to cloud based JAVA / HTML code and away from PC based Microsoft .NET code.
I suspect they simply do not have the resources to make this change to thier CD code suites in a timely fashion. They probably already cut those people for the year.
They would be smart to just say so and publish where they are in the upgrade cycle.
DRW
