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Microsoft Q&A, the place to get answers to all your technical questions on Microsoft products and services, was launched on October 30, 2019 as a Preview with support for 11 services. Since then, we have onboarded more services and released key features so you can get your technical answers faster. Time will tell if it's a Major Disaster
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Probably already answered on SO +and marked as a duplicate.+ 
Or:
Oh yay! Another MS site where we can get a canned, "You have said you are having problems with X. ... ... ... (a lot of verbiage). Please give us more information... Hopefully this helps you!" Over the course of five paragraphs.
(and then locking the thread.)
modified 19-May-20 14:25pm.
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David O'Neil wrote: Another MS site where we can get a canned,etc.
Ugh, right. I had blocked their previous “support” site from my brain (and blocked it from search), and forgot how frequently useless it was. Outsourcing responses to first-tier folk rarely help. 
And gamifying it so the MVPs stay on it doesn’t help much either.
TTFN - Kent
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It's not even verbiage, but often outright buttlicking, culminating with absolutely no useful information whatsoever.
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The five stages of MS support:
- Run
sfc /scannow and dism /Online /Cleanup-image /RestoreHealth; - If that doesn't work, here's how to create a new profile, losing all of your work and every service linked to your Microsoft account.
- Didn't work? Time to nuke your computer and rebuild from scratch.
- Still didn't work? We can't reproduce the problem because you didn't provide enough information, despite the step-by-step instructions in your original question.
- Closed as "WontFix".
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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So they have new craptastic support to replace the old craptastic support?
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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But with shiny new icons! 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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MS devs following their own tags on Stackoverflow was the only MS support I ever had that didn't suck. I even managed to get them to (eventually) fix a bug/add a missing feature. Of course they have to go and blow it up. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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SO that interface seems strangely familiar...
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Good grief, why do they have to continuously re-invent their support sites?
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Recently, I was inspired to investigate the original HELLO.C for Windows 1.0, a 125 line behemoth that was talked about in hush tones. Just in case you need to compile any Windows 1.0 code
Someone makes a decimal off-by-one error or something
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Eurocrat: "But the decimal separator is , not ."
Redmondite: "No, it's ."
...so to resolve the issue, they agreed to omit it completely.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Humans and AI systems work better when they tackle problems together. That’s according to research from Microsoft chief scientist Eric Horvitz. Just don't ask them to open the pod bay doors
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Normally when Microsoft decides an end-of-life date for a product, they really just mean “you shouldn’t be using this anymore, but we understand if you do”. This won’t be the case for Silverlight, which will no longer be downloadable after October 12, 2021. "Well it's all right, even if the sun don't shine Well it's all right, we're going to the end of the line"
I did actually triple-check to confirm this wasn't a couple of years old.
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The design framework is currently used in apps such as Outlook, Teams and OneDrive, and Microsoft recently announced Fluent UI, unifying their web and mobile UI libraries under a shared charter. New icons for everyone?
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F Fluent Design.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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In the quest to make computers ever-more pervasive, and invisible, Google's AI research team has now unveiled a new way to weave technology directly into our garments. The so-called "e-textile" concept could let users control electronic devices through a flick or a twist of their hoodie strings. Or they're just yanking everyone's cord
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I think the problem is not them trying to find new ways... I think the problem is the amount of morons that will ![Jig | [Dance]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/jig.gif) and make 3 days camping to be the firsts to buy it  
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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The four horsemen of the apocalypse will be wearing them. Very soon, by the looks of things!  
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Microsoft and Altran release Code Defect AI to identify potential problems in software development and suggest fixes. It looks like you messed up the order of the items in the for loop again. Do you want help with that?
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I hope they don't feed it with VB6 
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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The acceptance of Work from Home is expected by many to be one of the most enduring fall-outs o the COVID-19 crisis, but Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella worries that it comes with its own negative side effects due to the lack of casual interaction with fellow employees. They built all those shiny buildings and need to make use of them
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Having an office bigger than some employees' houses will probably help too
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I ran across someone recently who says the way to move past object oriented programming (OOP) is to go back to simply telling the computer what to do, to clear OOP from your mind like it never happened. That would make it an 'OOPs'?
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Another entry in the "who not to hire" catalog.
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