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I'm new to Windows Store app development and Windows 8 in general and I'm working on an app.

I see that there are 2 types of accounts to log in to win8 with: a Microsoft account and a local account.

I also see that I have 2 data stores I can use to save persistently: the local data store and the roaming data store.

My question: Does it make sense to use the roaming data store for a user that is logged in on a local account? Does the account type matter for this decision? I assume my app will be used by both types of users.

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  • Seems all Microsoft samples happily write to RoamingFolder without checking for a local user, so I'm assuming you can write data to there and the data stored there will automatically start to sync when/if the local user later is connected to a Microsoft account. – Joachim Isaksson Aug 01 '13 at 11:03
  • how's the local user going to get the app? short of sideloading, he/she can visit the store but to install an app the account must be tied to a Microsoft account. – Jim O'Neil Aug 02 '13 at 22:45

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