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    <link type="guide" xref="accounts" group="#first"/>

    <revision pkgversion="3.5.5" date="2012-08-14" status="review"/>

    <revision pkgversion="3.13.92" date="2014-02-20" status="candidate"/>

    <revision pkgversion="3.18" date="2015-09-28" status="final"/>

    <credit type="author copyright">

      <name>Susanna Huhtanen</name>

      <email>ihmis.suski@gmail.com</email>

      <years>2012</years>

    </credit>

    <credit type="editor">

      <name>Michael Hill</name>

      <email>mdhillca@gmail.com</email>

    </credit>

    <credit type="editor">

      <name>Ekaterina Gerasimova</name>

      <email>kittykat3756@gmail.com</email>

      <years>2014</years>

    </credit>

    <include xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="legal.xml"/>

    <desc>Why add your email or social media accounts to your desktop?</desc>

  </info>

  <title>Why add an account?</title>

  
Adding your online accounts brings your choice of services like calendar,

  chat, and e-mail straight to your desktop and makes the information of the

  services a seamless part of your user experience. By adding accounts you can

  easily keep in touch using services from different accounts, like chats, at

  the same time. Just set up your online accounts once and every time you start

  your computer all the accounts and services that you have added are ready to

  use.

  
See <link xref="accounts-which-application"/> for information on which

  applications can access which online services.

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