Ask Paul: August 2 (Premium)

Happy Friday, and greetings from Hilversum, The Netherlands. This will be the last Ask Paul before we fly home next Thursday. Have a great weekend.
Where is the Microsoft Store version of Office 365 Home?
DAN1986IST asks:

So, what is up with the Windows Store version of Office, and is there a way to re-download and install that version not the click to run one? Has Microsoft discontinued the store version hence the redirection to the click-to-run version on the Office website?

This one was from the forums, not Ask Paul. But I thought it was important enough that maybe we should address it here. I asked Microsoft and they told me that this change was revealed in May and that they didn’t have anything additional to share beyond this quote:

“People will continue to be able to find Office in the Store. If the Office image isn’t already preinstalled, they will be directed to account.microsoft.com to install it.”

The thing is, I don’t recall this. But I am seeing the same behavior: You can search for and find Office 365 Home and Personal in the Store. But when you select the Install button, a web browser launches.

I guess the pertinent bits here are:

If your PC comes with Office preinstalled, you will (probably) get app updates through the Store.
If not, you can find Office 365 in the Store, but you must install/update it from the web.

This is rather odd, isn’t it? I wonder if this has something to do with the Office Insider program, since you can enroll in the program from the main Office apps by navigating to File > Account > Office Insider.
Intel NUC follow-up
JustMe asks:

Back in November of last year, you did a couple articles on Intel's NUC (NUC8i7BEH) mini-PC kit. In the last one (at least, the last one I saw anyway) you mentioned wanting to connect the NUC to external graphics and testing it as potential gaming machine. I was wondering if you ever did so and what your impressions were. Apart from gaming, are you still happy with the NUC, and what do you use it for these days?

I never did get an external GPU, so I’ve not tested that yet, sorry. (I still expect to get an eGPU at some point.  It’s kind of curious that’s not happened yet.)

I do still use the NUC regularly, but because it's much louder than I like---and much louder than its predecessor---it’s never evolved into being my daily-use PC, as I had expected. So I use it mostly for the book: It’s the PC I take all the screenshots on.

As I think you saw, there are some good reader responses in the original forum post. I will just add that I have used the NUC with an HP Thunderbolt dock and that that seems to work well. I’ve not ever tried to daisy-chain Thunderbolt devices, but based on what some readers are saying, that doesn’t work.
Home swaps
yoshi asks:

Hi Paul, my wife and I were thinking about getting involved in home swaps. I was curious to find out how we would go about doing this. Is there a home...

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