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<h1 style="text-align: center;">microsoft account</h1>
<h2>[WHAT]</h2>
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<li>] <strong>microsoft account</strong> - a user account that you can create with microsoft. Having and using this microsoft account with your windows-8 based device provides&nbsp;the user with a&nbsp;number of additional functions</li>
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<li>] your windows user account on your windows 8&nbsp;based device&nbsp;can now be associated with your "microsoft account",</li>
<li>] your microsoft account can be associated with an existing services account gmail,</li>
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<h2>[WHY]</h2>
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<li>] <strong>single sign on</strong> = using a "microsoft account" you can login(sign on) to <span style="text-decoration: underline;">your windows user account</span> on your PC. You can now&nbsp; simealtaneousy log-in&nbsp;to any number of additional applications and services such as the following ... all by signing in to your PC with your microsoft account.</li>
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<li>mail, messenger, facebook, win-8-app=win-8-app, skype, &nbsp;</li>
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<li>] <strong>synch</strong> = this gives you the ability to save your windows user account&nbsp;settings/preferences, as well as some applications settings to your microsoft account. This&nbsp;means that you could log in to any other windows 8 based pc, anywhere, with your microsoft account and NOW have your START SCREEN, your DESKTOP and your APPS on that PC&nbsp;</li>
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<li>obviously any of your local files would not be there, but you could access anything that you had saved to your skydrive (see blelow)</li>
<li>and any PROGRAMS that you have installed on your PC may not necessarily be installed on "any other PC" that you may be&nbsp;using BUT ...</li>
<li>this feature is not just for accessing&nbsp;your settings/preferences on other computers, if you ever need to re-install windows, if you have your synch settings enabled(they are by default), after you re-install windows, you will still have&nbsp;many of your personalized settings and preferences(), you wont have to reconfigure them ...</li>
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<li>] <a href="article?id=869" target="_blank">skydrive</a> = microsofts online cloud based storage service&nbsp;which is integrated with the windows 8 operating system on a few different levels but does require a ms account. The service enables you to save 'your data to the cloud' and then access that data from anywhere (with an internet connection)&nbsp;on any windows device.&nbsp;</li>
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<h2>[WHY NOT]</h2>
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<li>]&nbsp; drawbacks</li>
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<h2>[WHERE]</h2>
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<li>]&nbsp;to use [what]</li>
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<h2>[WHEN]</h2>
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<li>] to use [what]</li>
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<h2>[EXAMPLE]</h2>
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<li>] what in action</li>
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<h2>[HOW-TO]</h2>
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<li>] if you already have a windows.live, or hotmail or ( ...) account, you already have a microsoft account</li>
<li>] if NOT you can create one when you setup your new windows 8 pc</li>
<li>] you can also go to live.com and register/create your account first a</li>
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<h2>[REFERENCE]</h2>
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<li>] where did we get information about [what]</li>
<li>(aka live , aka hotmail, )</li>
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<h2>SRC = [scott m fulton] readwrite.com windows-8 review</h2>
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<li>"An operating system should know its user. This was not a concept Microsoft understood at first. When it formally introduced the &ldquo;My Documents&rdquo; folder in Windows 98, folks asked me whether &ldquo;My&rdquo; meant &ldquo;me, the computer&rdquo; or &ldquo;me, the user.&rdquo;&nbsp;</li>
<li>Then Windows XP introduced the notion of a user profile. At last, multiple people had personal folders that pertained to them, and &ldquo;my&rdquo; meant yours and not anyone else&rsquo;s. When you signed into XP, the file manager would show you your folders.&nbsp;For many folks, though, that wasn&rsquo;t much of a convenience. People tended to have XP bypass the whole accounts thing, and created their own folders anyway, with names like &ldquo;DAD&rsquo;S PRIVATE STUFF DO NOT TOUCH.&rdquo; (There&rsquo;s a really secure folder for you.)</li>
<li>Microsoft has had a dream of integrating users&rsquo; "Windows identities" (called security principals) with their "Microsoft-brand email addresses", and in turn with a "Microsoft-run&nbsp;identity system".&nbsp;</li>
<li>researchers poked holes in it&nbsp;</li>
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<li>http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2001/11/48105?currentPage=all &nbsp;</li>
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<li>waiting to be exploited&nbsp;</li>
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<li>http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/why-does-microsoft-passport-suck/30&nbsp;</li>
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<li>eventually ms learned , tying access to your credit card, &nbsp;</li>
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<li>single factor authentication system was not a good idea&nbsp;</li>
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<li>windows vista roaming profile&nbsp;</li>
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<li>http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc766489%28v=ws.10%29.aspx&nbsp;</li>
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<li>ms account is the default key for entering the os &nbsp;&nbsp;</li>
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<li>you can bypass it (local account vs ms account)&nbsp;</li>
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<li>when someone is a subscriber to Windows, that subscription should enable her access to software and certain personal resources from any device she&rsquo;s using at the time., &nbsp;</li>
<li>whenever you sign onto Windows 8 on any device you will see your basic preferences on the Start Screen and the basic style, such as your personal wallpaper on your Desktop. (aka roaming profile)&nbsp;</li>
<li><strong>roaming profile&nbsp;</strong></li>
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<li>you now dont have to create(and manage) a seperate windows user account on each of your pcs if you have / use more then 1 &nbsp;</li>
<li>also if your using windows based tablet or phones, 1 windows user account will do the trick</li>
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<li>skydrive is also tied to your ms account</li>
<li>the new office 2012 (web based), uses skydrive as the default storage</li>
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