Techno Frustration

Are Microsoft trying to kill Visio? It looks like it's impossible to buy Visio by adding it to your Office 365 Home subscription. The only solution appears to be to create a separate (dummy) business account and add Visio to that subsciption -  https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_365hp-visio/where-is-visio-for-office-365-home-premium . I won't be doing that, time to look for an alternative!

I recently bought a Windows 8 laptop for my son for his school work. However, after logging in with his email address (also used on an Xbox) he was unable to use any online features which are pretty key to Windows 8 and Office 365. As it was a child account he got prompted that he "needed permission to use this service” and to have an adult sign in. However, when I signed in as an adult to authorise this I was redirected to the following broken page: https://account.live.com/ChildConsent/PaymentCollection Verify that you're an adult Error When you verify your age with a credit card, Microsoft charges the card a one-time fee of $0.50 (50 cents), and a portion of the fee is donated to charity. Our system is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later. If the problem persists, please contact customer support. (40101-[2]-04c6207c-5883-4e91-b47d-2e6febec6efc) I contacted Microsoft support via email and got the following reply (24 hours later) Upon investigating both a...