[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Oh man, "long explanation" is me all day. I don't really like it, very few, if any like it, but most accept it as my eccentricity once they get used to it, AND, make up their mind that Ohmster actually really is "one of the good guys here". Otherwise and always at first it is, (Groan! Here comes Ohmster writing another book again!) I will probably add this simple eccentricity to my sig as it really annoys way too many people for comfort. But I cannot help it, I cannot say anything in a sentence or two. Probably my electronic training where details are *everything*, the more you have, the better job you can do. Moving right along...

Google is not the answer to universal logins and passwords, although I am sure they wouldn't mind. Many apps and websites will accept a Google or Facebook login in lieu of setting up an account for every website you wish to visit, even if it is a once in a lifetime answer to a question. For Microsoft applications and services, you need a Live account, plain and simple. And I can see by your reply that you have already settled on the Live account.

Side Note: Have you ever had the unpleasant experience of setting up a Windows 8 computer for someone and following Microsoft's prompts and Next buttons? My God, you will be entering your Live email address and password just about every time you touch the thing. My clients that hire me for stuff like that will not tolerate it so I ditch all the password stuff but for the one you need to get to the desktop. The idea here is to, I don't know, rent or own an app but only for a particular person, not for the device. I just do not like it. I buy Office, pay for it and install it, it is mine to use as I please. Anyone else using the machine, on another login as the option to use Office for themselves. Now they won't allow that anymore, must login just to use it, for yourself only. Retarded!

But wanted to let you know that setting up a Google account is well worth the benefits you will get everywhere because of it. Gdrive, IMHO, is *much* better than Sky Drive (Called something else now. Oh yeah, OneDrive.) When you send pictures in Live Mail, you were always limited by the email file size. Include 24 high resolution jpg pictures of your Florida vacation and your email bounces, exceeds size limits. Live Mail integrates with Sky Drive, uploads all the full size images or smaller ones if you wish, and only emails the thumbnails so the recipient can click a thumbnail, view the large picture in a browser, download it and keep it if they want, see a slideshow online of all the pictures, or download the entire set. Now THAT is a terrific feature and I was psyched to find it. Hey I get to store my pictures in cloud, send mail, and recipient can download all full size within 90 days or so.

...until, once I emailed some pictures and in one of them, one of my lady friends was topless by the pool, all in good fun. Next time I tried to send mail, no good, sky drive is dead. Huh? Tried to login to Sky Drive online and found account closed forever. Explanation: Sexually explicit images violates our TOS, therefore your account has been closed. No way to appeal it, no way to discuss it, just plain gone! I had to open another account under a different name and email address to get it back.

This is appalling! I had NO IDEA that Microsoft was scanning ALL user files for nudity, and God knows what else. Trigger words for Homeland security? So if a Muslim man or woman emails his/her family in the Middle East, will that person be kicked off OneDrive and all Microsoft Live account applications for asking if the rebel groups are still bombing the village and is it safe to come home? Or will they get the TOS ban from speaking such things? Now so far as I know, Box, Dropbox, Gdrive, and now Maximum PC Magazine benchmarks a new one, "Western Digital My Cloud" and is getting very high marks on it.

This is the most blatant and most horribly misused case of privacy that I have ever encountered. So I sent pool party pictures. One fun loving woman took her top off to entertain the crowd and I am now banned from Microsoft Live, for that? Harmless, no more explicit than any string bikini or wet T shirt contest that we see every day.

Now due to the Microsoft Policy that a user's personal files are NOT off limits for examining, censoring, and even banning for the mildest of indiscretions. This is a sad day indeed for civil rights in the USA by a voluntary action taken by an American company. I am so disgusted that I want to puke! :mad:

You are very welcome, Craig, Do what you find you have to in order to get your own personal issues dealt with to solve your own issues. Congratulations buddy! :good: