widows account password

I've been waiting for someone to ask your question. It's easy to be confused about this!

Your Windows account is the account that you use to work with your computer. Each person who uses a computer is supposed to have their own Windows account, which makes it possible for more than one person to use the same computer - a common scenario in the workplace. Having individual accounts for each user, each with their own password, means that each user can work with their own files and deal with their own email and browse to their own websites, etc., completely separate from every other user of the same computer.

That was the easy part. Here's where it gets messy: In addition to having a user account on a computer, you can also have a user account on the internet.

A user account that you have on a computer is called a local account, because it's located on a computer physically in front of you, which is called a local computer, because ... it's local to you.

A user account that you have on the Internet used to be known as a remote account, because the physical computer on which it's located was somewhere remote from you. Today we call it a cloud account.

You are very familiar with cloud accounts if you do banking online or pay your bills online, because your account with your bank or your utility company is entirely online. Also, a Google account is entirely online. There are no local Google accounts.

A Microsoft account is Microsoft's version of a cloud account. You can work with your Microsoft account with your web browser, from any computer in the world, because a Microsoft account is a cloud account - it's on the Internet. That's how I work with my Microsoft account. But Microsoft gives us another way to work with a Microsoft account.

You can create a local account on your computer and give it the username and password of your Microsoft account. Now you have a hybrid ... a combination of a local account and a cloud account. This is difficult for many people to understand, and it drives people crazy.

For example: If your Windows account is a Microsoft account - you have one of those hybrid accounts - then your Windows password is also your Microsoft account password.

In my opinion this is needlessly confusing, and makes it more difficult to work with a Windows computer. We see the results of that every day here.

Yes it is.

if you use your Microsoft account to login then it’s the same as your Microsoft account password.

if you use a local account then it’s the local account password. Local account allows blank password. So if you never set one up you can leave it blank.