MicroNugget: How to Use Microsoft Account Integration in Windows 8

In this video, Tim Warner covers using Microsoft Account integration in Windows 8. In a business setting, Active Directory is the most versatile method of identity management. But Windows 8 introduces ways for home users to use one account across multiple devices.

In many ways, Windows 8 was an opportunity for Microsoft to try out features and functionality that — up until the operating system's release — hadn't been strictly necessary.

For instance, accounts. In office settings, Active Directory Domains allow users to identify themselves no matter where they find themselves in the environment. That hadn't been a big concern for home users.

But the ubiquity of Internet access, streaming services, cloud-based activity, multiple devices, and more meant that user identification and file access across devices needed a new solution.

Previously Windows Live ID, in Windows 8, Microsoft revamped it into Microsoft Account Integration. Watch Tim configure it, set it up across multiple devices, and sync Microsoft shared services across multiple Windows 8 devices.

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