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anonymous wrote:

I buy an Office 365 subscription around Christmas when MS runs a sale for about $40/year

That’s the single-user Personal edition, I assume?
I top-up my 6-user Home edition via Amazon whenever the annual price drops to $79—CamelX3 alerts me. With 4-5 of us on it, that’s $16-20 per person per year.

My default attitude to $10 Office licenses is “Any reason I should trust this?”

Lugh.
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What cured my spam problems years ago—and keeps it cured to this day—is using Gmail and Outlook.com for all/most email. They seem to have the problem solved.

I don’t know if this will work, not something I’ve needed to try:
Create matching accounts at Gmail and/or Outlook.com;
Setup your existing accounts to forward all email to the new accounts;
Only bring email into your desktop email program from the new accounts.

Lugh.
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stanhutchings

Michael432 wrote:

3 ways to keep track of hundreds of unique passwords:
1. write them down on paper
2. use password manager software
3. use a formula to generate easy to remember passwords

1. That isn’t remotely practical for hundreds. You can’t sort on paper.
3. That isn’t remotely practical for hundreds. The formula is of course, but the itsy bitsies added to both ends—absolutely no way the average user will remember them.

Michael432 wrote:

writing down passwords on paper, at least that avoids re-using a password

How? You can’t sort on paper. Nobody is going to write down their new password and then carefully scan thru hundreds of others in multiple pages of this notebook they have to carry everywhere, which of course everyone quickly figures out is their password notebook.

I use an input manager [Roboform] because I often need to input far more than login info on websites, and I have a keyboard shortcut to add some gibberish after the auto-password. The prime consideration of this method is it’s convenient, and therefore not subject to the usage degradation over time which most techie ‘solutions’ have suffered.

The gibberish is merely a minor extra layer, since it’s also convenient. As such, it—or a password manager alone—is a better recommendation for the general public than other totally impractical ‘solutions’.

Lugh.
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mdwpsyd

I haven’t heard of anything for the backstage. These might help for ribbon:

Kutools

WYSIWYG Ribbon Editor

Lugh.
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areader wrote:

I don’t use peek and I never combine buttons.

Try one, then the other a few days later. I doubt that’s it, but…

areader wrote:

Three things running all the time

I doubt it’s these, since they appear to have little to do with the Taskbar—I assume Foobar is the old audio player—but it’s easy to disable them for a few days.

I don’t have anything else to suggest, good luck 🙂

Lugh.
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sproket90 wrote:

microsoft does 1 thing really well

it makes an OS

Fyi MS is probably winding down its OS operation—it’s been a decreasing part of its revenue for years.

Fyi MS does a lot of things well, but it’s not fashionable to talk about them—so I won’t, might spoil my tuxedo’s outline.

A clue is MS’s current market cap.

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Ascaris

areader wrote:

I found the bottom-most icon

I take it from that comment that you have a vertical Taskbar, ie on left or right. I have the same, Taskbar on left, and have never experienced your problem. My Taskbar Settings:

I use small icons, no labels. I occasionally add, delete, and re-order the icons on my Taskbar, and the changes always hold.

Do you have any utility running which might interact with your Taskbar?

Lugh.
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Alex5723 wrote:

I would say 7GB for 1903 upgrade is a bit large

7GB is the amount MS was reported to be reserving for updates from 1903 on. I guess their telemetry showed a lot of updates failing due to too little drive space.

If a drive is almost full, there’s a big chance of problems, even if theoretically there’s enough space.

Lugh.
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woody wrote:

a startling discovery

I’ve known about this for so long, I can’t remember where I first saw/heard it. Probably when originally investigating Skype for our business comms needs.

People should also be aware that this [outside contractors listening in] goes on in face-to-face meetings, and large group meetings in single physical or virtual spaces. I expect it will continue until either all the world speaks one language or translation AI becomes 99% accurate.

OscarCP wrote:

quite a bit of the communications these have been snooping on are from live business meetings where some of the information discussed is about trade secrets, privileged contractual information and such like

I didn’t see that in the article, did you discover it elsewhere?

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woody wrote:

An interesting chess move by Microsoft will make it considerably more expensive to move from on-premises servers to either Google or Amazon clouds. De
[See the full post at: Microsoft raises prices for organizations using VMware and either Google Cloud or AWS]

I wonder if that’s in response to last month’s Google announcement:
Google teams up with VMware to bring more enterprises to its cloud

MS wants to fight Amazon for top spot, and won’t welcome Google pushing in from the side—IBM, Oracle etc are already enough competition. As Azure is much of the company’s mid-range future, they’ll fight hard for it.

Lugh.
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anonymous wrote:

If browser makers (text) still support DOS even now, then Windows 7 is safe forever

That’s not the issue. The issue is how long will websites, apps & extensions continue their support. If raw text-only serves your needs, you’re good.

Lugh.
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Fred wrote:

peculiar Nvidia forgot to send notification

Why do you think they didn’t?

Lugh.
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Tom in Az wrote:

I have bought at least 2 items from Walmart.com that were as much as $10 cheaper than Amazon.

Whenever I fill my Amazon cart enough to get free shipping, my next step is to visit Walmart.com—they’ve improved their website a lot in recent years, and definitely whack Amazon on price at times.

For electronics, I always check Newegg.com—their product selection / navigation is a lot better than Amazon’s, and there are often bargains to be had in their refurb & open-box offerings.

Amazon’s top value these days is the reviews, much better than other sites. Beware of fakes—filter by ‘Verified Purchaser’, check the top few ‘Most Helpful’, and then have a look at the 2-star & 4-star reviews. Fakes are usually either 1- or 5-star.

A good product will have a declining curve from a lot of 5-star to a few 1-star. If it has more 1-star than it should, filter by newest reviews—the maker may have fixed an initial defect.

Lugh.
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Tom in Az, SueW

[Lugh]

Nathan Parker wrote:

I wish I could find some quality groceries

See if there’s a Trader Joe’s near you—great quality, decent prices.

Nathan Parker wrote:

Amazon Basics products

I’ve found all I’ve tried to be very good.

Lugh.
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Nathan Parker

Pointedly wrote:

if I used icons for my shortcuts, I would need a screen a half kilometer wide)

Do you know about Fences? I use it to neatly control maybe 100 icons. Some always visible, many in ‘roll-up’ fences where only the title bar is visible, one ‘New’ visible fence where new icons go automatically so no hunting for them, and a couple of folder views for WIP.

Lugh.
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