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microsoft account

[WHAT]

  1. ] microsoft account - a user account that you can create with microsoft. Having and using this microsoft account with your windows-8 based device provides the user with a number of additional functions
    1. ] your windows user account on your windows 8 based device can now be associated with your "microsoft account",
    2. ] your microsoft account can be associated with an existing services account gmail,

[WHY]

  1. ] single sign on = using a "microsoft account" you can login(sign on) to your windows user account on your PC. You can now  simealtaneousy log-in to any number of additional applications and services such as the following ... all by signing in to your PC with your microsoft account.
    1. mail, messenger, facebook, win-8-app=win-8-app, skype,  
  2. ] synch = this gives you the ability to save your windows user account settings/preferences, as well as some applications settings to your microsoft account. This 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 
    1. obviously any of your local files would not be there, but you could access anything that you had saved to your skydrive (see blelow)
    2. and any PROGRAMS that you have installed on your PC may not necessarily be installed on "any other PC" that you may be using BUT ...
    3. this feature is not just for accessing 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 many of your personalized settings and preferences(), you wont have to reconfigure them ...
  3. ] skydrive = microsofts online cloud based storage service 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) on any windows device. 

[WHY NOT]

  1. ]  drawbacks

[WHERE]

  1. ] to use [what]

[WHEN]

  1. ] to use [what]

[EXAMPLE]

  1. ] what in action

[HOW-TO]

  1. ] if you already have a windows.live, or hotmail or ( ...) account, you already have a microsoft account
  2. ] if NOT you can create one when you setup your new windows 8 pc
  3. ] you can also go to live.com and register/create your account first a

[REFERENCE]

  1. ] where did we get information about [what]
  2. (aka live , aka hotmail, )

 

SRC = [scott m fulton] readwrite.com windows-8 review

  1. "An operating system should know its user. This was not a concept Microsoft understood at first. When it formally introduced the “My Documents” folder in Windows 98, folks asked me whether “My” meant “me, the computer” or “me, the user.” 
  2. Then Windows XP introduced the notion of a user profile. At last, multiple people had personal folders that pertained to them, and “my” meant yours and not anyone else’s. When you signed into XP, the file manager would show you your folders. For many folks, though, that wasn’t much of a convenience. People tended to have XP bypass the whole accounts thing, and created their own folders anyway, with names like “DAD’S PRIVATE STUFF DO NOT TOUCH.” (There’s a really secure folder for you.)
  3. Microsoft has had a dream of integrating users’ "Windows identities" (called security principals) with their "Microsoft-brand email addresses", and in turn with a "Microsoft-run identity system". 
  4. researchers poked holes in it 
    1. http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2001/11/48105?currentPage=all  
  5. waiting to be exploited 
    1. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/why-does-microsoft-passport-suck/30 
  6. eventually ms learned , tying access to your credit card,  
    1. single factor authentication system was not a good idea 
  7. windows vista roaming profile 
    1. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc766489%28v=ws.10%29.aspx 
  8. ms account is the default key for entering the os   
    1. you can bypass it (local account vs ms account) 
  9. when someone is a subscriber to Windows, that subscription should enable her access to software and certain personal resources from any device she’s using at the time.,  
  10. 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) 
  11. roaming profile 
    1. 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  
    2. also if your using windows based tablet or phones, 1 windows user account will do the trick
  12. skydrive is also tied to your ms account
  13. the new office 2012 (web based), uses skydrive as the default storage
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NAME: microsoft-account

DESCRIPTION: your windows user account CAN now be associated with your "microsoft account" this gives windows 8 users a number of potentially useful functions

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