Microsoft account
Outlook Mail
Hotmail
Google
Facebook
Twitter
LinkedIn
Connecting to a Service
Let us take an example of a Facebook account. . The welcome screen of the app prompts you to connect to various online services. Select Facebook from the list of services.
An inline webpage frame launches, which initiates the connection to Facebook.
The so loaded page informs you what you can do and what data you share after you connect your Facebook account to Windows 8. Click on “Connect” button to move on.
The resulting page asks for Facebook credentials.
Enter the credentials and click “Log In”. Facebook will authenticate the credentials.
Facebook asks for the final confirmation to give permission to Windows 8 to access your account data.
Facebook lists what data Windows will be able to access if you give permission. Click on “Allow” if you are happy with giving access to Microsoft. This will connect the Facebook account to your Windows 8 account.
The final page of the setup informs you that the connection is successful. Behind the scenes, the People app would already have begun to fetch your Facebook contacts and their details.
Thus, you are connected to Facebook account. The connection process to other accounts is more or less the same – a welcome instruction screen, enter credentials, give permission to Windows to access the data, and you are done.
Sections of People App
The data retrieved by the People app from various services is divided into three sections.
People Section
This section shows an aggregated contact list of your online accounts. Selecting a contact from the list will show their profile information.
You can filter the displayed contacts to show only online contacts, from the context menu of the section. Also, you can add a new contact through the “New” button on the context menu.
What’s New Section
This section shows the latest activities of your contacts. For example
- You can see the news feed of your Facebook account. The feed is an aggregation of the posts shared by your contacts.
- You can also view the latest tweets posted by your Twitter contacts.
Through the context menu, you can filter this section to show content from a single service, instead of showing a mix-up from all the accounts.
Also, this section doesn’t show static content. You can like or comment on a Facebook post. Similarly, you can favorite, retweet or reply to a tweet.
Me Section
This section lists the details of your online profiles as well as your latest updates posted on the accounts.
You can see your latest tweets, Facebook posts, or your photo albums in this section. Also, you can view notifications of your accounts in this section.
Search through People
People app implements the Search harm to provide search function within the app. You can search contacts by their names.
When I searched for the term “meego”, the result listed 3 contacts containing the search term.
Settings Charm
This charm in the People app simply shows the accounts that the app is connected to. Also, it provides you an option to add a new social account.
I am currently connected to 4 social accounts. I can add another account by clicking on “Add an Account”, which will guide me through a new connection process.]]>
An inline webpage frame launches, which initiates the connection to Facebook.
The so loaded page informs you what you can do and what data you share after you connect your Facebook account to Windows 8. Click on “Connect” button to move on.
The resulting page asks for Facebook credentials.
Enter the credentials and click “Log In”. Facebook will authenticate the credentials.
Facebook asks for the final confirmation to give permission to Windows 8 to access your account data.
Facebook lists what data Windows will be able to access if you give permission. Click on “Allow” if you are happy with giving access to Microsoft. This will connect the Facebook account to your Windows 8 account.
The final page of the setup informs you that the connection is successful. Behind the scenes, the People app would already have begun to fetch your Facebook contacts and their details.
Thus, you are connected to Facebook account. The connection process to other accounts is more or less the same – a welcome instruction screen, enter credentials, give permission to Windows to access the data, and you are done.
You can filter the displayed contacts to show only online contacts, from the context menu of the section. Also, you can add a new contact through the “New” button on the context menu.
Through the context menu, you can filter this section to show content from a single service, instead of showing a mix-up from all the accounts.
Also, this section doesn’t show static content. You can like or comment on a Facebook post. Similarly, you can favorite, retweet or reply to a tweet.
You can see your latest tweets, Facebook posts, or your photo albums in this section. Also, you can view notifications of your accounts in this section.
When I searched for the term “meego”, the result listed 3 contacts containing the search term.
I am currently connected to 4 social accounts. I can add another account by clicking on “Add an Account”, which will guide me through a new connection process.]]>
