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Chapter 1 Pre-Flight Checklist:What to Do Before YouGet Your Windows Phone
Fill out the rest of the form, paying particular attention to the password, which
should be complex if possible and rated “strong” by the form. (It will rate your password
as you type.) According to Microsoft, a strong password contains 7–16 characters, does
not include common words or names, and combines uppercase letters, lowercase letters,
numbers, and symbols.
TIP There are some excellent tools online to help you create complex pass-
words for web services. I use and recommend a free tool called Last Pass
(
lastpass.com), which provides a plug-in for all major PC-based web browsers
(IE, Firefox, Chrome, and Safari), allowing you to securely create, store, and
manage the passwords for all of the services you use online.
When you’re done, click the button labeled I Accept. Windows Live will work for
a bit and then display the Windows Live Home page (live.com), this time logged on
with your new ID. This is shown in Figure 1-5.
FIgure 1-5: It’s pretty sparse right now, but your Windows Live ID is up and running.
As initially congured, there’s not much going on with your new Windows Live
ID. But that’s easy enough to rectify, and there are a number of things you can do to
make this ID more valuable. You can start with the basics: initial Windows Live ID
conguration.
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