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This all seems like a great idea, but we are skeptical until we see it working. Many of us often have questions that cannot be answered in a frequently asked questions section, or from a canned computer response. Most of the time, customers want the security and reassurance of talking to an actual person and they don't want to have to find the answer on a website, on a cloud or whatever other means deemed useful by some of these large companies like Microsoft. That being said, if Microsoft can actually make this process as simple and seamless as they claim they can, then that's a whole other story. However something about this just doesn't sit right with us. It feels a little too familiar to when the automated phone service was first introduced. The companies that created these IVR systems claimed there would be less time on hold as more information would be available to customers in these automated menus. The result was more frustrated customers who merely wanted to speak to an actual human. Somehow giving the customer more technology seems like it's swimming against the current. But hey, maybe we will all look back at this and think it was a banner moment in customer service history, changing the way that business has been done for years. It's just somehow it all feels a little too familiar to several years ago. Only time will tell.

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