10. Connect and Communicate with Windows 8

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In this chapter, you learn to use the People app and the Mail, Calendar, and Messaging apps to keep your connection strong with these tasks:

Getting social with the People app

Staying in touch through email

Keeping your dates straight with the Calendar app

Messaging: When you need instant contact

Once upon a time, we used our computers to accomplish functional but—well, let’s face it—boring things. We wrote letters. We crunched numbers. We typed data into a form.

Ho hum.

And then social media appeared on the scene. Suddenly we are in touch with friends, family, and colleagues. We can see pictures, ...

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