In the recent Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system, there is a unique way of signing-in in once PC. In Windows 8, each user has an ability to set up and use Windows 8 in their own way. Doing so, is an difficult task to Microsoft. However, they achieved it by making an ability to sign in with Microsoft's Live email id. As we all know, sharing a single PC is common in the home and it will be done by creating a separate user account to each member. But sharing a single PC with multiple users will lead to less security, less privacy. One can easily get access to others files and folder by doing simple tricks in Windows operating system. Microsoft want's to avoid this. Irrespective of the device user has been logged in, they want to make sure that user should get back all his personnel settings.
To do that, in Windows 8, Microsoft had set out an option to sign-in with Windows Live id and customize it the way user likes. As per sources from the telemetry data, there is a 72% share of desktops happen in and it is 49% in Laptops. As per Microsoft, there are many benefits if we use Windows Live Id to sign-in Windows 8 operating system. Below few are the listed ones.
Benefits of signing-in with Windows Live ID in Windows 8 OS
1)One can associate most commonly used Windows settings with their user account.
2) Same settings will be available when user sign's-in to their account on any Windows 8 PC.
3) One can easily get back their Metro Style Apps on multiple Windows 8 systems.
4) Apps settings and last-used state of Apps will persist across all the Windows 8 PC's.
5) One can easily sign-in to Apps and services which use Windows Live ID for authentication.
By Signing-in With Windows Live ID, one can get back their "Windows 8 lock screen picture, desktop background, user tiles, browser favorites and history, Explorer settings, mouse settings and many accessibility settings" in any Windows 8 system they log-in. Once user log-in with Windows 8 Live ID, they can get back all their settings with in a fraction of seconds. There are many features if we use Windows Live ID to sign-in for Windows 8 operating system. Let us consider an example, where a user is reading the news in his reader App on his tablet. Let us think, he is busy in going office, he closed his tablet and left it in his home. By using Windows Live ID, he can get back from where he left. Just by Signing-in into his Windows Live ID in his office system, he can continue reading the news from where he stopped in his tablet. One can easily get back on the same page of a book, same level of a game or the same place in the movie in all Windows 8 PCs.
Though there are many benefits if we sign-in with Windows Live ID, the main use is there is no need to sign-in to multiple services and applications every time. If a user signed in to Windows with his Live ID, there is no need to enter it again to sing-in to any App of website which uses Windows Live ID. However, by choosing, one can store separate Metro style App and web site credentials. As per Microsoft, by using Windows Live ID, one can sync the following things in every Windows 8 PC user logged in.
1) Personalize
2) Themes
3) Ease of access
4) Language preferences
5) Apps
6) Web browser.
Categories which are Synchronized in Windows 8 OS
As soon as user logged in into Windows 8 with the help of Live ID, following three categories will be synchornized in all Windows 8 PCs. They are
1) Windows settings
2) App settings and data
3) Credentials.
The data of the above will be stored in the cloud so that it is available to users when they sign in to their Windows 8 PCs. Microsoft took maximum protection to secure once Live profile. Some of the measures Microsoft took to protect once user profile are mentioned below.
1) Microsoft don't roam data over WWAN by default.
2) All user data is encrypted on the client before it is sent to the cloud.
3) Most sensitive information, like user credential information is encrypted twice. Once based on the user password and then it is encrypted again when it is sent across the internet.
4) When user is accessing other Windows 8 PC for the first time, he has to establish "trust" for that PC by providing further proof of his identity.
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