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samnsara

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7. hubby beta tested it and was at the rollout with Jay Leno and Bill Gates and Steve in Seattle..

Reply to Dennis Donovan (Original post)

Fri Nov 20, 2020, 09:01 AM

Nov 2020

...he took my friend who was also a geek and she had never ever even used it before ( except for the short tutorial hubby gave her before they arrived) and the Microsoft team chose her from the entire audience to come up on stage and demo it. Apparently she demo'ed it correctly..

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hubby beta tested it and was at the rollout with Jay Leno and Bill Gates and Steve in Seattle.. samnsara Nov 2020 #7

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