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How Microsoft's Windows 8 will sync users' settings and apps
By Mary Jo Foley | September 26, 2011, 2:17pm PDT
Summary: Microsoft will be giving Windows 8 users the option to log into their PCs and tablets using their Windows Live ID. Here’s what you’ll get if you do so.
Microsoft officials shared more specifics around the coming ability of Windows 8 to sync user settings and app purchases in a September 26 post on the Building Windows 8 blog.
Microsoft revealed at the Build conference that users will be allowed to sign into their Windows 8 PCs using an existing or newly created Windows Live ID. (Signing in this way is not required; it is an option.)
According to today’s post by Katie Frigon, the group program manager of the You-Centered Experience team (yes, that is her real title), there are advantages of going the Live ID route. By doing so, she blogged, users can:
By Mary Jo Foley | September 26, 2011, 2:17pm PDT
Summary: Microsoft will be giving Windows 8 users the option to log into their PCs and tablets using their Windows Live ID. Here’s what you’ll get if you do so.
Microsoft officials shared more specifics around the coming ability of Windows 8 to sync user settings and app purchases in a September 26 post on the Building Windows 8 blog.
Microsoft revealed at the Build conference that users will be allowed to sign into their Windows 8 PCs using an existing or newly created Windows Live ID. (Signing in this way is not required; it is an option.)
According to today’s post by Katie Frigon, the group program manager of the You-Centered Experience team (yes, that is her real title), there are advantages of going the Live ID route. By doing so, she blogged, users can:
- Associate the most commonly used Windows settings with your user account. Saved settings are available when you sign in to your account on any Windows 8 PC.
- Reacquire your Metro style apps on multiple Windows 8 PCs. (”The app’s settings and last-used state persist across all your Windows 8 PCs.”)
- Save sign-in credentials for the different apps and websites you use and easily get back into them without having to enter credentials every time.
- Automatically sign in to apps and services that use Windows Live ID for authentication
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