Technical information

Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition

accounts, automatically stocking your address

book with your friends from Facebook, Twitter,

and other sites. (Plus, you can access both your

own and your friends’ Facebook photos.)

✓ Local account: This account works fine for

people working with traditional Windows pro-

grams on the Windows desktop. Local account

holders can’t run many of the Start screen apps

bundled with Windows 8, including the Mail

app. Nor can they download new apps from the

Windows Store.

You have two ways to sign in with a Microsoft

account; they’re ranked here according to simplicity:

✓ Use an existing Microsoft account. If you

already use Hotmail, Xbox Live, or Windows

Messenger, you already have a Microsoft

account and password. Type in that e-mail

address and password at the screen shown in

Figure 1-6 and then click the Sign In button.

✓ Sign up for a new Microsoft account. Click the

Figure 1-6, and Microsoft takes you to a website

where you can turn your existing e-mail address

into a Microsoft account. (Signing up for a new

Microsoft e-mail address is a better option, how-

ever, because it lets you use the Windows 8

built-in Mail app.)

If you’re signing into Windows 8 for the first time, and

you don’t want a Microsoft account, you’ll see a

Cancel button. Click Cancel, and the next screen

shows a button that lets you sign in with a Local

account instead.

But until you create a Microsoft account, the nag

screen in Figure 1-6 will haunt you whenever you

try to access a Windows 8 feature that requires a

Microsoft account.

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