People (Windows)
| A component of Microsoft Windows | |
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| Included with | Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Windows 10 Mobile, Windows Mixed Reality |
| Replaces | Windows Contacts |
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| Mail, Calendar | |
People is a contact management app and address book included in Microsoft's Windows 8 and 10. It allows a user to organize and link contacts from different email accounts. People has a unique graphical interface, unlike Windows Contacts' File Explorer-based interface, based on the Metro design language that had already been used for Outlook.com and the integrated online People service. In addition to being an address book, it provides a list of recent mail conversations with a selected contact. It used to also be a social media hub, in which users could integrate their social networking accounts (e.g. Twitter), but API changes in both Windows and social media services caused this functionality to break.
People works with other Metro-style apps, but it has its own front-end interface and can be opened by end users. Unlike Windows Contacts, it does not currently allow users to import or export .pst files, vCard files, Windows Address Book files, or other files directly. Instead, it gathers contact information from email accounts the user has set up on other services in Windows, such as Mail and Calendar, Skype Preview, or the Xbox app. Changes, additions, and deletions made in the People app will be exported to the corresponding email accounts. Users can select which accounts should display contact info in People.
The People app supports Outlook.com People, Google Contacts, iCloud contacts, Yahoo! contacts, and other contact lists that can be imported by logging into an email account.
Since newer Windows apps do not tend to support Windows Contacts or use a user's designated Contacts folder, the People app is helpful. It syncs with contact lists in the corresponding email accounts and can be used as a way to organize contacts with different profiles on Mail and Calendar, Skype, Xbox, and other apps. People has links at the bottom of its hamburger menu for launching Mail and Calendar, and users can click on email addresses in Mail to save it to any account in People. People also adjusts to users' system-wide light or dark settings.
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