Turbo Tax 2025 desktop version for Windows 10

[Perplexed in Los Angeles]

Will Intuit come to its senses and provide its normal desktop version(s) for individual consumers as it has in the past for tax year 2025? 

[Mike9241]

like 1 chance in a trillion. it came out with a new notification about 2 weeks ago that W11 would be required to run Turbotax Desktop 2025. there may be workarounds. since no one has 2025 yet, you'll have to wait for suggestions that work at least for some users. Otherwise. your options are using a competitor or switching to online. risks of using a noncompliant computer is that the accuracy guarantee may be void and you may reeeive do direct support from Intuit if you run into problems 

[baldietax]

done deals - MS ended life of Win 10 as planned, Intuit released their min system specs for Win 11 as expected and also canned ItsDeductible as promised.  As we've been discussing on all the other threads for 2 months they really have no reason to reverse course for a decision impacting less than 1% of their revenues and small % of their user base.

[Perplexed in Los Angeles]

Misleading - MS has NOT ended support for MS Win 10 - 1 more year at a max cost of $30 (free for many).

Impacting less than 1 % of their revenues - I doubt that is correct. Impacting a small % of the user base - not correct. 

That said, they may very well not reverse course. Marginal profit actuarially winning out over old fashioned values such as loyalty, morality, and equity. So your bottom line conclusion has a very high probability of being correct.

[baldietax]

Some people interpret ESU security updates as sufficient "support" that's fine; see MS webpage on ESU - "Windows 10 support has ended".

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/extended-security-updates

TT Desktop revenue is about $200mil.  Intuit total revenue is about $20bn.  So yes, Win 10 is less than 1%.

TT has 35mil online returns, 4mil desktop users (declining 5% annually anyway).  So of a total user base around 40mil, from Intuit perspective the final impact to the user base (Folks on Win 10 who finally refuse to upgrade over the next few months and move to competitor), will be a low %.

https://investors.intuit.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1266/intuit-reports-strong-fourth-qua...

$200mil revenue and 4mil users is nothing to sniff at as a standalone business they would make different decisions, but it's small game in the overall Intuit behemoth.

[benjaminjohn-22]

I received an email today (11/05/25) from Intuit stating: TURBOTAX DESKTOP ADVANTAGE DELUXE TAX YEAR 2025 WIN DOWNLOAD (cost is $70.00).

I have Windows 10 and had previously received emails from Turbo tax that I had to upgrade to Windows 11 or use their online service to do my tax returns for 2025.  Is this email for real (i.e., Turbo tax changed their mind) or is the email a scam?

Signed: Confused.

[VolvoGirl]

You seem to have an Advantage auto renew account.  They don't know you only have Windows 10 and haven't upgraded to Windows 11.   Did you get charged the $70 for Deluxe that you can't use?   Here's a couple links that might interest you.

https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/download-products/end-support-windows-8-... 

See the last paragraph on this one if you got the 2025 download but can't use it.  They have a special offer

https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/articles/community-news-announcements/turbotax-windows-10-desktop-...