As it happens, both companies offer some very similar services. Your mental picture, then, should be that Microsoft Work is a company on one side of Seattle and Microsoft Personal is a different company on the other side of Seattle. The overlap between Microsoft work and personal services If you have an email address, it is a Microsoft Personal account. (This may change on new company computers in the next few years, as discussed below.)
#OFFICE FOR MAC HOME AND STUDENT 仕事 WINDOWS 10#
If your Windows 10 login screen shows an email address today, you are probably logging in with a Microsoft Personal account. This is the one that you’ll use continuously regardless of who your employer is from year to year.
This account is intended to be your long-term personal relationship with Microsoft. This is frequently referred to as a Microsoft account. I’m calling it Microsoft Personal in this article. The name “Office 365” is now used for services offered both to businesses and to individuals. That’s why it has to call it a “work or school account.” Microsoft has also called it an organizational account at times.Īt one time it made sense to call this type of account an Office 365 account. 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.
#OFFICE FOR MAC HOME AND STUDENT 仕事 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. Connect Windows 10 to both work and personal accounts.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.)
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