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WARNING: That file may not be recoverable if he prepared his return after you. Online accounts can have only one person's return. If he did his return after you, that irrevocably erased your file. To try to recover your file, you would need the phone number, email address, or user ID for your friend's account not yours. Then the issue is that TurboTax will send a text or email with a verification code to your friend's phone or email which is needed to access his account. Thus, your friend and you would have to coordinate this so the account can be accessed to see if your file is there.   Of course, your friend can do this directly by checking his account to see whose file is there. If it's yours, he can upload it to a removable drive which he then gives you. However, to open the 2023 tax file you'll need to purchase the 2023 TurboTax app with all states that were in your return. If your return contained one or more states, the file cannot be open unless the states are installed on your computer.  https://turbotax.intuit.com/personal-taxes/past-years-products/2023/     if recovery is not possible, you can get a copy from the IRS https://www.irs.gov/forms-pubs/about-form-4506  or a transcript either online or thru the mails  https://www.irs.gov/individuals/get-transcript     

The point is that there are still six more years of ESR support "guaranteed" for Windows 10 Iot Enterprise Edition.  Which means that Microsoft could easily do the same for Windows 10 Home and Pro editions.   Yes, that's only security updates, but that's all we need.  We don't care about "enhancements, improvements, or even bug fixes that are, and will be, released in updates for Windows 11".  We just need a reliable Win32 API platform to run the apps that we need to run.  Windows 10 works fine for that.  😉

@JohnQT wrote: Yes, there's no guarantee that other tax software vendors will follow Microsoft's lead.  They could all just take Intuit's lead and ditch Windows 10 before Microsoft does. Microsoft has ALREADY DITCHED Windows 10!   It's not rocket science: Microsoft is ONLY issuing security updates for Windows 10, not enhancements, improvements, or even bug fixes that are, and will be, released in updates for Windows 11.