7. People

After the initial tablet setup, the best place to start entering information is in the People app, which is where information about your contacts is stored. Once People is populated, working with related apps such as Mail, Messaging, and Calendar will be a breeze. The People tile on the Start screen will populate automatically with cycling pictures associated with your contacts.

People goes beyond contacts that might be stored in a phonebook or in the address book integrated into Microsoft Outlook. People serves as a one-stop shop for all the people you know from all the places you know them, and it brings contacts that ...

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