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While it might seem odd that you can't get apps with your business account, it's not entirely surprising either. Apps that you could get would need to be published to you by the site administrator, because that's who owns them, who would be paying for them.
You don't want end users having to attach a CC to their business account, either their own or the companies. If they put their own in, now it's an argument as to who owns that software, if they put the company CC in, who manages that?
I know there is a way to publish apps via a private store to Win10 machines within your organization, but I couldn't tell you how to do it.
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@Dashrender said:
While it might seem odd that you can't get apps with your business account, it's not entirely surprising either. Apps that you could get would need to be published to you by the site administrator, because that's who owns them, who would be paying for them.
You don't want end users having to attach a CC to their business account, either their own or the companies. If they put their own in, now it's an argument as to who owns that software, if they put the company CC in, who manages that?
I know there is a way to publish apps via a private store to Win10 machines within your organization, but I couldn't tell you how to do it.
That's a good point. I didn't think of it that way.
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@Dashrender said:
While it might seem odd that you can't get apps with your business account, it's not entirely surprising either. Apps that you could get would need to be published to you by the site administrator, because that's who owns them, who would be paying for them.
Problem is, it means that for basic usage you need to merge the accounts. And thus the problems begin.
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@johnhooks said:
That's a good point. I didn't think of it that way.
Except now you have to merge accounts even for free things.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@johnhooks said:
That's a good point. I didn't think of it that way.
Except now you have to merge accounts even for free things.
I just added my login to the store. Does that merge the two together?
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
While it might seem odd that you can't get apps with your business account, it's not entirely surprising either. Apps that you could get would need to be published to you by the site administrator, because that's who owns them, who would be paying for them.
Problem is, it means that for basic usage you need to merge the accounts. And thus the problems begin.
Not sure what you mean by merge? I have two or more MS accounts on my laptop at home - they aren't merged, they are all simply active. Sure, when I want to buy/download something I have to make sure I pick the correct account - but we've been doing that on mobile devices for years.
That said, it's still a cluster.
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@johnhooks said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@johnhooks said:
That's a good point. I didn't think of it that way.
Except now you have to merge accounts even for free things.
I just added my login to the store. Does that merge the two together?
There is merging of accounts as I can see.. the device simply has two account on it.. and uses the permissions of the account that allowed the action when account access is needed.
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@Dashrender said:
@johnhooks said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@johnhooks said:
That's a good point. I didn't think of it that way.
Except now you have to merge accounts even for free things.
I just added my login to the store. Does that merge the two together?
There is merging of accounts as I can see.. the device simply has two account on it.. and uses the permissions of the account that allowed the action when account access is needed.
Well, that's kind of merged. The end user cannot clearly see which is which.
And to be absolutely clear.... Microsoft cannot see which is which either. It was because of Microsoft confusing and merging these accounts that I lost both my O365 AND my personal accounts at the same time. MS on the back end merged them together and broke them both. That's why for six months I've had no working MS accounts and still don't, MS can't get them fixed.
This is VERY merged and very not separate.
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@Dashrender said:
Not sure what you mean by merge? I have two or more MS accounts on my laptop at home - they aren't merged, they are all simply active.
For most people, they don't get mixed together TOO much. But MS can't keep track of them with confidence, and if they can't, any appearance of tracking them yourself is likely nothing more than that.
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@Dashrender said:
Sure, when I want to buy/download something I have to make sure I pick the correct account - but we've been doing that on mobile devices for years.
Only you people in the WIndows phone world. I've never done that. Not sure when it would even come up.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
Sure, when I want to buy/download something I have to make sure I pick the correct account - but we've been doing that on mobile devices for years.
Only you people in the WIndows phone world. I've never done that. Not sure when it would even come up.
LOL - I knew you would pick on that - but no, seriously - on my Android phone I would switch between different amazon accounts back in the day because they didn't allow shared content between account on Amazon services.
FYI - Google and Amazon services don't work well if at all on Phones phone (though Amazon does have an Amazon store app for buying stuff on Windows phone, but not for apps).
