Viewing Your Digital Persona… And Creating Your Own Posts

In addition to your contacts and their aggregated activities view, People provides a handy front end for managing your own digital persona, or the online account or accounts that establish you as an entity that can perform tasks and establish relationships with others. Called Me and shown in Figure 8‑15, this interface is to you as the What’s new view is to others, a look at what’s going on… with you.

Figure 8‑15: The Me view is all about you.

In this view, you can see and edit your own contact information via the View profile link, view your own What’s new feed, which is culled from whatever online accounts you’ve configured, view and deal with pending notifications, and view the photos you’ve recently posted to social networks and other accounts.

Most important, perhaps, you can also use this interface to post to supported social networks. If you have more than one configured, you’ll see a drop‑down letting you choose the service you want to use, and a text box labeled “What’s on your mind?” where you can type in your new post.

Mail

It’s perhaps surprising that the Windows 8 Mail app is a big‑screen version of the mobile Mail app that first debuted in Windows Phone, providing access to multiple e‑mail accounts using an interface that’s optimized for bigger, touch‑enabled screens. It utilizes common e‑mail features like attachments, CC and BCC support, and the reading of textual and graphical e‑mails. It also works in either portrait or horizontal display modes, so you can manage mail the way you want to.