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The problem here
was that I had two separate accounts, one for work, on for leisure. Reread the article.

Many OS platforms have a single login but allow you to set up multiple accounts for individual apps. Windows 8 isn't this flexible. Your login into the OS logs you in automatically to all of Microsoft's cloud services - and Microsoft clearly intends that to be a one-stop login to access all of your Microsoft services. You can't select an alternate account.

But the issue it highlights applies equally to all BYOD solutions - it doesn't matter if there is a single unified login or not, really. I think the tendency of users will be to mix both leisure and professional roles in their cloud solutions.

There are lots of potential ways to work around the issue I describe here - the problem is that the combination of BYOD, Cloud Services, and Unified Log-on make these kind of situations more likely to occur in the workplace - and I don't think IT policy makers have considered all the possible scenarios yet.
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Posted by dcolbert@...
10th Feb