Worlds Best Teens Compete in Microsoft Office World Championship.This July, we asked for software tips from the 2.Microsoft Office National Champions, a set of charming teens who are officially the best at using Power.Point, Word, and Excel.The Verge recently followed these teens to the World Championship in California, where they tested their Office skills in a contest that out nerds the spelling bee.It was as if the Olympics opening ceremony was replaced by a networking event, says the Verge.The event demonstrates Microsofts global dominance, as forty nine countries competed, though the Verge found that many international competitors chose to compete in English over their native language, as the companys localized software is poorly translated.Each year, hundreds of thousands of American teenagers compete to be the best at Word, Excel, andRead more Read.Retired teacher Mary Roettgen, who coached the frequent national champions from Green Hope, NC, is proud of her high achieving team, but she gives the Verge a hack for getting her A students to help teach her D students Roettgen sets goals for her students like getting 2.Id chip in 2. 0 bucks and wed have a celebration in class.That had the effect of motivating the A students to help their struggling classmates.And whats even neater, is that kid who was the 2.Roettgen, whos just trying to make us cry now, goes on You take that D or F student, and get them to passIt can change their life.Somebodys just got to tell them theyre worth something.The Docx Games Three Days at the Microsoft Office World Championship The Verge.Office-2016-for-Mac-5.jpg]];var lpix_1=pix_1.length;var p1_0= [[1152' alt='Microsoft Outlook Shared Mailbox Categories Of Science' title='Microsoft Outlook Shared Mailbox Categories Of Science' />The Difference Between A Microsoft Account And An Office 3. 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AccountJune 1. 6, 2.Understanding Microsoft Work And Personal Accounts.Microsoft has taken great strides towards simplifying its products and services.Now that iPhones iOS4 support multiple exchange accounts and Outlook 2010 shows other users folders in exactly the same way as public folders you have another.Email address Your primary address or Hotmail or Outlook.Your primary address or onmicrosoft.Used for Log into Windows 8.Microsoft Office 365 has been tremendously successful so far, certainly from a sales perspective millions of subscriptions, although the exact number is kept.The 18 best Outlook tips for increasing productivity Become an Outlook Jedi with our expert tips.It has discarded products that were overlapping Live Mesh discarded in favor of Skydrive, Messenger discarded in favor of Skype, it has streamlined its product names rebranding the Windows Live services, for example, and introduced the consistent interface used on Windows computers, servers, tablets and phones.Nothing is ever simple with Microsoft.There are still areas where you can be hopelessly confused.Heres something you need to understand if you want to take advantage of some of Microsofts best new services.Microsoft has two different databases that have credentials for you your email address and a password.Theyre separate. Theyre used for different things.Its possible that someday Microsoft may come up with a way to combine them but right now its up to you to keep them straight.And in typical Microsoft fashion, theyre not used consistently.Everyone can and should have a Microsoft account.It is an email address and a password it might be your primary email address, or it might be a Hotmail or Outlook.You can use the Hotmail or Outlook.The Microsoft account can be used to log into a Windows 8 computer and it gives you access to online file storage with Skydrive, as well as a host of other services.Separately separately Office 3.Office 3. It is an email address and a password it might be your primary email address, or it might be yournamebusiness.The Office 3. 65 account is used to log into your mailbox either in Outlook or in webmail and other Office 3.It may also be the account thats associated with your business subscription to Microsoft Office.See how it works My Microsoft account is brucebbruceb.Thats the one I type to log into my Windows 8 computer.My Office 3. 65 account is brucebbruceb.Thats the one I type to log into my mailbox.For reasons that will become obvious, Microsoft sometimes distinguishes between a Microsoft account and an organizational account, as in this window that comes up when Office 2.The key is remembering that the two accounts are separate.They can be the same email address you can set the password to be the same, if you like but they are separate accounts and Microsofts servers look in different databases to authenticate you for various services.Heres a quick overview.Email address Your primary addressor Hotmailor Outlook.Your primary addressor onmicrosoft.Used for Log into Windows 8 Log into Windows Phone 8 Log into Skype Xbox Log into Office 3.Exchange mailbox Log into Office 3.Sharepoint Lync. Office subscription.Office 3. 65 Home Premium.Office 3. 65 Pro.Plus. Online files.Skydrive. Skydrive Pro.Perfectly clear What could go wrong Theres one truly unfortunate crossover as a consumer, you purchase a subscription to Office 3.Home Premium with a Microsoft account.For 9. 9, you can install Microsoft Office on up to five devices, a great deal with only one side effect the term Office 3.Office 3. 65 applies to those consumer accounts.Thats how you get instructions like this How do I link my Microsoft Office 3.Skype account1. Sign into Office 3.Microsoft account.Yeah, I guess thats technically accurate for some consumers, but its doomed to failure for all the business people who sign into Office 3.Office 3. 65 accounts and cant link the accounts to Skype.Its confusing and frustrating.If you have both a Microsoft account and an Office 3.Microsoft is not handling them well behind the scenes.Open up your Office 3.Outlook. com webmail.Youll get an error message Its not nice.People are forced to use In.Private mode to check one or the other, so the accounts dont fight with each other.You can see IT pros complaining about the confusing setup here, among other places.Very little is simple in 2.Microsoft is moving faster than I would have predicted to clean things up from an even more complex muddle only a few years ago, so this is not awful, just something to know.And dont make the mistake of thinking its better in Apples or Googles ecosystems they have their own issues.