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Forget software - get a mouse and keyboard. This is where the discounted prices make it worthwhile.
I remember 2+ decades ago the company I worked for got special pricing for both hardware and software. This is roughly the year where MS's first ergonomic keyboard came out. A large number of items were $21, and I believe that's what I had paid for it; no local store could match it.
Oh, and Flight Sim. I had always wanted to learn to use it, but not badly enough to pay full price. I still have probably not logged more than 4 hours with it...and now there's finally a new one coming out soon...?
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No hardware...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Visio Professional.
Software design and presentations ... and landscaping, deck design, etc.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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A coffee mug?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I can send you 6 licenses of Win10 fro one CP coffee mug 
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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SUCCESS:
At age 4, success is . . . not piddling in your pants.
At age 12, success is . . . having friends.
At age 17, success is . . . having a driver’s license.
At age 35, success is . . . having money.
At age 50, success is . . . having money.
At age 70, success is . . . having a driver’s license.
At age 75, success is . . . having friends.
At age 80, success is . . . not piddling in your pants.
(Copied from Royal Arch Mason Magazine - attributed to anonymous).
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at age 70, do not need to go to hospital
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Started my MS Surface Go (from sleep) today; MS was busy the previous night with the "new Edge" updates (There is already Edge on the device so why it should be "new"?)
After logging in, the first thing is you get some Office / Edge update prompts ... except they're full screen / scaled wrong: no close buttons ... no buttons, period. Can't slide, scroll, whatever.
Rebooting gets you through as series of updates until you just get Edge prompts ... ignore, ignore, ignore.
Other stuff now seems OK, except Edge ... incapable of adapting to screen resolution. So "big", it's unusable.
(Did my grandma get all that?)
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Gerry Schmitz wrote: Started my MS Surface Go
First mistake - buying hardware from MS. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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The device is great; it's the MS update (and verification) process. Obviously didn't test their changes on their own devices.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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New Edge is the Chromium based version that is replacing the original Edge.
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Ah ... thanks for that.
I hate browsers: I've seen Firefox chomping at 8GB on my 16GB machine.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Along with a theme song, Microsoft's QA avatar should be the Steven King "It" clown. More synchronicity.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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I had the same thing happen to me on my desktop machine.
Instead of doing what the prompts wanted me to do, I switched to Task Manager and just closed the offending process.
Heh heh, I'll bet they didn't expect me to do that!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: I switched to Task Manager and just closed the offending process.
Try explaining that to your typical technophobe. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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'Hold down CTRL and SHIFT together, then press ESC. Release CTRL and SHIFT. From the window that pops up, click on the "Processes" tab at the top, then click once on the task that is showing as "Not responding". Click the "End task" button in the lower right corner, then close the pop-up window.'
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I had no keyboard (tablet); and no task / tool bar; just some truncated text on a full-screen / background something. Only the power button worked. No other issues since I got it. Use it to test my UWP apps for adaptability. (Irony)
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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They used to be a pretty cool company.
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Gerry Schmitz wrote: MS was busy the previous night with the "new Edge" updates (There is already Edge on the device so why it should be "new"?)
Ask the Coca-Cola(tm) company about their New Coke. If you're old enough to remember that. There's good reasons not to pretend it's the same product.
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Is a book club just a novel tied to a stick?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Apologies in advance if I am asking something basic here. Does the above quote hints at book clubs are for old age people only?
If so, I am not too sure it fits into thought of the day as such for any reason to me.
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"TotD" is a pun starter thread, not intended to be taken seriously.
It started out as a "daft question" daily, but the puns were preferred so I stick with that.
And no, I'm not going to try an explain a pun - jokes are bad enough!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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And good morning to you !
Did you know it's already the year 2020 and the Beatles broke up and . . .
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