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1. HOW MANY ACCOUNS WILL OUTLOOK FOR MAC HOLD WINDOWS 10
2. HOW MANY ACCOUNS WILL OUTLOOK FOR MAC HOLD PASSWORD

Microsoft also offers discounted services to college students and runs those through this database. If you have a business Office 365 email address, it is a Microsoft Work account. This side of Microsoft includes Office 365 business mailboxes, Azure cloud services, Sharepoint, and much more. If you change jobs or change your business, your Microsoft Work account will change. Microsoft runs an extensive set of services for businesses – from small business to huge enterprises. I’m calling it Microsoft Work in this article. “Work or school account / Created by your IT department” The picture above shows you the words that Microsoft uses today to describe its two different accounts. Let’s start with the vocabulary, the part that Microsoft handles very poorly. Obviously it’s less intuitive because they’re both run by Microsoft, but when you log in with a Microsoft work or school account, you are connected to completely different services than if you log in with a Microsoft personal account.Īn overview of Microsoft work and personal accounts Microsoft Work is as different from Microsoft Personal as Google is from Apple. Start out thinking of Microsoft’s work and personal accounts as completely unrelated credentials for two different companies.

HOW MANY ACCOUNS WILL OUTLOOK FOR MAC HOLD PASSWORD

Your login credentials – the email address and password – are just a way to identify you in each system. Again, it’s obvious that these are two completely separate services. You might use the same password, you might use a different password. You log into each one with the same email address. Similarly: imagine that you have an Amazon account and a New York Times account.

Google and Apple are different companies, right? It makes sense that logging into a Google account connects you to different things than logging in to Apple services with your Apple ID. For example, if your Google account login is you could use Gmail for email but it’s not required. You use the services from each company that make sense for you and ignore the ones you’re not using. Google and Apple both run email services and offer places to store files online. If you have an iPhone, you might upload your photos to iCloud (connected to your Apple ID) and upload your photos to Google Photos (connected to your Google account). Those two accounts offer overlapping services. Your account login for each is an email address and a password. Let’s say you have a Google account and an Apple ID.

HOW MANY ACCOUNS WILL OUTLOOK FOR MAC HOLD WINDOWS 10

The overlap between Microsoft work and personal services.– Work or school account / Created by your IT department An overview of Microsoft work and personal accounts.If you have a business Office 365 mailbox, you can’t skip this – it’s one of the articles that you have to read and understand. This affects almost everyone in small businesses. For reasons I’ll touch on below, I’m going to refer to them as Microsoft Work and Microsoft Personal. I’m going to describe Microsoft’s work and personal accounts as clearly as possible. Many people are frustrated because they cannot understand what accounts they have or where each one is supposed to be used.

Years of marketing and branding blunders have made it very difficult to describe how Microsoft has organized these accounts. Many of you have credentials – an email address and password – for both of them. Microsoft has two different types of accounts. (8 – click here for an updated, shorter, less snarky version of this article.)