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This is where the new incarnation of Microsoft Account on Windows 8 makes a great deal of sense.
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You may have just figured out, after reading that last sentence, why this feature wasn’t exploited more: You really shouldn’t have to create a separate account on every PC you own. This way, when the same user creates an account on another PC in the same network, that other PC can pull pre-existing data from the roaming profile. The hidden user folder of that PC stores profile data about such things as personal folder locations, in a subdirectory named Roaming. Today with Windows 7 in home networks, a user creates his account on one PC. The way Microsoft is enabling this is through a much grander exploitation of a feature it introduced in Windows Vista called the roaming profile. For now, the most obvious thing the user will notice is that, whenever she signs onto Windows 8 on any device (not necessarily one that belongs to her), she’ll see her basic preferences on the Start Screen and the basic style, such as her personal wallpaper, on her Desktop. But you’ll come to see more as time goes on.
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This is not exactly easy to accomplish, and the full implications of this promise will not yet be realized the day Windows 8 is generally released.
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So when someone is a subscriber to Windows, as a customer will come to be called, that subscription should enable her access to software and certain personal resources from any device she’s using at the time. Microsoft has now fully realized that users are independent of their computers – or, I should say, of their devices. This time, there are good reasons for doing so.
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When you install Windows 8, or when you log on for the first time, you’ll be asked to create a Microsoft Account if you don’t already have one. Thus the pressing question becomes, does the latest Microsoft Account offer the Windows 8 user anything of genuine value? My answer: Quite possibly.
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As a result, in the first few days after Windows 8 ships, expect the Microsoft Account identity database to eclipse the size of some major countries. While you can bypass it, the act of doing so will be much less obvious than for prior incarnations of Windows, and everyday users probably won’t take the time to find out how. What was the Microsoft Passport, then Windows Live ID and now just the Microsoft Account is the default key for entering the operating system. This time, it’s in front of our face, and it will be much more difficult to bypass. So here we are on the cusp of the Windows 8 era, and we’re faced again with Microsoft’s latest incarnation of shared identity.
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Only after several years of wrestling with the consequences did Microsoft come to grips with researchers’ assessments: Tying access to one’s credit cards to a single-factor authentication system that shares the same password with every component in that system, is a manufactured security hole waiting to be exploited. As was the case with almost every security-related effort during the XP era, it was rolled out in an embryonic state, and researchers poked holes in it without even trying.
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Meanwhile, since the turn of the century, Microsoft has had a dream of integrating users’ Windows identities (called security principals) with their Microsoft-brand email addresses, and in turn with a Microsoft-run identity system. People tended to have XP bypass the whole accounts thing, and created their own folders anyway, with names like “DAD’S PRIVATE STUFF DO NOT TOUCH.” (There’s a really secure folder for you.) Identity First When you signed into XP, the file manager would show you your folders.įor many folks, though, that wasn’t much of a convenience. At last, multiple people had personal folders that pertained to them, and “my” meant yours and not anyone else’s. When it formally introduced the “My Documents” folder in Windows 98, folks asked me whether “My” meant “me, the computer” or “me, the user.” Then Windows XP introduced the notion of a user profile. This was not a concept Microsoft understood at first. Let’s face it, do we log onto our phones? If we’re okay with our phones pretending they’re us while they move around, why would we need to be protective about devices that mostly stay in one place? This is a point of view that Microsoft, over the course of the next year, may render as antiquated as the dial tone.Īn operating system should know its user. “Logging onto” Windows is something a great many users don’t do.