Synchronizing settings
One of the first things that you will notice upon opening VS2013 is the request to log in with a Microsoft account. You can use any existing Microsoft account that you have, including Outlook/Hotmail, OneDrive (formerly known as SkyDrive), and Xbox Live. If you have an MSDN account, Microsoft recommends that you use it to log in to Visual Studio. If you don't, or if you would prefer to use a new account, you can create one at https://login.live.com/. Microsoft groups the settings by product type, so there is one set of roaming settings linked to all editions of Visual Studio Professional, Premium, and Ultimate. A separate set of settings is synched across the Express editions of Visual Studio. The result is that the settings ...
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