User Manual

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Chapter 1 Pre-Flight Checklist:What to Do Before YouGet Your Windows Phone
That’s where Windows Live comes in. Yes, some parts of Windows Live compete with
some of these other services. Windows Live Photos is a direct competitor with Flickr, for
example. But by making Windows Live open and extensible to other services, Microsoft
has also made it possible for Windows Live users to utilize the service as a hub, of sorts,
for their other services. It gives you a single place to access information from Facebook,
Flickr, and Pandora (or whatever), without having to manually visit each place sepa-
rately. And you can access not just your information, but also the information of your
contacts—that is, your friends, family, and other acquaintances—from those services.
Later on, you’ll be able to connect your Windows Phone to just one service—Windows
Live—but gain access to an unbelievable amount of content, instantly, thanks to these
connections. It makes Windows Live even more powerful.
Neat, eh? Okay, time to get connected.
Finding and Examining the Available Services
To nd out which services you can connect to Windows Live, you need to visit the
Windows Live Services page. You do so by clicking the Add Web Activities link on
the Windows Live Home page (live.com) or by navigating directly to profile.live
.com/services. Shown in Figure 1-11, this page provides a way to access all of the
online services which you can connect to Windows Live.
FIgure 1-11: Here, you’ll nd the services that you can connect to Windows Live.
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