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I don’t see anything coming up that will change that.) Microsoft is putting finishing touches on a new Windows app, Your Phone, which will sync your Android phone to your computer and be Fabulously Useful ™. That’s not a percentage, it’s the number of people worldwide using Edge. (OneDrive is doing pretty well.) Microsoft is retooling its Edge browser and will be touting its ability to sync your bookmarks and preferences to the Edge mobile app so that you can go back and forth between your computer and your phone. Thus the insistent push to store files in OneDrive, which with luck will lead you to use OneDrive and the Office apps on your phone. Since Microsoft doesn’t have its own mobile platform, the company risks becoming irrelevant to consumers unless they can be convinced to use Microsoft services to link their devices together. The future belongs to the connections among our devices, mostly mobile devices. As a result, Microsoft is arguably the most successful tech company on the planet right now.īut Microsoft can’t let go of its disappointment about being excluded from the mobile world. It is embracing open standards and has been avoiding the spotlight now being shone on other tech companies for privacy and antitrust issues. Microsoft still has its dominant place in computer operating systems and has brilliantly pivoted to enterprise services.
The result: embarrassing failure, layoffs, and huge write-downs. Today, most people think Apple invented mobile computing.Īfter fumbling and flailing for a few more years, Microsoft launched a new push to break into the iPhone/Android phone duopoly, redoubling its efforts to develop a phone operating system and spending billions to acquire Nokia and sell its own phones. It was so unsuccessful that when Apple introduced the iPhone, the world forgot about Microsoft’s mobile efforts. It wasn’t for lack of trying! Before 2007 Microsoft had made valiant efforts to develop handheld Windows devices. Microsoft was badly burned when it missed the transition to mobile devices. Let’s zoom up to 36,000 feet and get the big picture.
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What are Windows 10 “Shared experiences”? I wrote this article two years ago about those messages, which were just as wrong then as the scary message you see today. Select this message to open Settings and fix things.” Message 2: “ Work or school account problem – We need to fix your work or school account before you can use shared experiences. Message 1: “ Microsoft Account – You need to fix your Microsoft Account for apps on your other devices to be able to launch apps and continue experiences on this device.” When the new “Shared Experiences” setting first appeared in Windows 10 two years ago, there were two variations on similarly scary messages. You aren’t using it, you won’t use it, and it should be polite and shut up.
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They had been putting in every password they could think of, trying to resolve their “account problem.” Nothing worked. Four people called me on the same day last week about the scary message. If you see that message and you know you haven’t changed any passwords lately, you will worry that your Microsoft account has been hacked. Select here to fix it in Shared experiences settings.” The message reads: “ Microsoft account problem – We need to fix your Microsoft account (most likely your password changed).
Trust me – you won’t miss “shared experiences.” (Sometimes they keep popping up even after those switches have been turned off. Turn off Nearby Sharing and Share across devices. The only suggestion I have left is to ignore it.)Ĭlick on Start / Settings (the gear in the left column).Ĭlick on Shared Experiences in the left column. For some people – including on my own computers for the last few months – this notice still appears even after turning everything off. (Update 09/2020: Try the tips in this article but they may not work. You haven’t been hacked and you don’t have a virus. If you get a notification that you have a “Microsoft account problem,” you don’t have a problem and you don’t have to fix anything.