Social Networking Integration

Although there is some speculation that social networking sites are a fad that could go away in several years, they are certainly here today. Windows 8 provides social network integration in a handful of ways to make it easier for you to work with your friends and contacts across those services.

For example, the People app lets you integrate contact information from Hotmail (Windows Live), LinkedIn, Twitter, Exchange, and Google. So, all of your contacts from all of those services can appear in the People app. The People app also provides social updates about your friends within the People app, so you can, for example, see what status updates your friends have posted on Facebook.