Apparently, I’ll have to create an online account and log into it every time I run software that I purchased and installed locally.
Having my personal information and who knows what else stored in Intuit’s servers somewhere or the cloud does not, in fact, give me more security or better control of my data. It gives more of my information to Intuit, puts it out there for hackers to scoop up in mass, and moves me closer to having to pay Intuit every year for my new “subscription” model instead of buy it and use it into perpetuity as is. I don’t need an account to unite my Intuit products. I only have one, which might fall off to none sometime soon.
So, yeah, the company is lying to me. And we both know it.
We’ve gotten there, ainna? The bald-faced lie and what are you going to do about it? In business and in governance.
I long for the olden days when I only lamented that the off-the-shelf products I bought prompted me to buy an upgrade.
Which is why I still use Paint Shop Pro 7 from 2001, Wen Book Library from 2006, and as many old timey utilities as still run on Windows 10.
