User Manual

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Using Windows Live ID to Access Your Social Networks and Other Services
FIgure 1-16: You can comment on updates from other
services directly from Windows Live.
FIgure 1-17: A small options icon appears when you mouse
over individual updates.
FIgure 1-18: Click the icon and a small menu appears with
more options.
There’s also a More Options link that brings you to a very interesting page where
you can manage the social updates from your friends or, more accurately, determine
which Windows Live services will appear in your Messenger social feed. (You can
manually navigate to this page by visiting profile.live.com/whatsnewsettings.)
This page, shown in Figure 1-19, also lets you hide individual users, which can be
very convenient. (Hey, we all have one of those friends, right?)
Perhaps by now the power of this system is obvious. But the real beauty of Windows
Live, and its connections to the outside services you already use, is that once you do
get a Windows Phone, you will simply log on to your Windows Live account, and all this
stuff will propagate around the phone as makes sense. So your Windows Live Hotmail-
based e-mail, contacts, and calendars will of course appear in the device’s Mail, Con-
tacts, and Calendar interfaces. But updates from your connected photo services will
also appear in the phone’s Pictures UI. And your Messenger social feed will show up in
the phone’s People experience. And all you have to do is sign in once.
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