Windows 8 In Depth

Online User Accounts

One new and very useful feature in Windows 8 is the ability to use your online Microsoft account name as your Windows logon name. This could be something like [e-mail] or whatever email address you use to create the Microsoft account.

If you elect to use your Microsoft account on Windows 8, Windows will automatically sync your Windows preferences over the Internet: your chosen background screens, colors and pictures, your account password and passwords you use to connect to shared network and Internet resources, Ease of Access and language settings, apps and app settings, preferences you set in File Explorer (discussed in the next section) and some other tools, and so on will all be stored on Microsoft’s servers ...