[magicalhippo]

I read an explanation from some Microsoft page or rep. that it had to do with making personal purchases in the Windows Store when you're signed in using your business account. IIRC the rationale was that the personal account could persist beyond your employment, so you wouldn't lose any purchases if you switched jobs.

If I indeed recall correctly, then that doesn't really make sense. Just force people to make a different, actual personal account, and have them use that.

[logifail]

> IIRC the rationale was that the personal account could persist beyond your employment, so you wouldn't lose any purchases if you switched jobs

Except if you lose access to the work email address by switching jobs, surely you're one forgotten password away from permantently losing access to the personal account too? It's linked to your _work_ email (only)...

[magicalhippo]

Yeah... all I can recall was it never made much sense to me.