In Windows 8/8.1, child accounts are used for that same purpose but they have their own account type now. If parental controls were needed, users needed to go to the specific account and add the restrictions to that account. In Windows 7, the ability for adding parental controls was tied to the permissions for Standard accounts. The addition for the available account types is the Child account. Both Microsoft and local accounts also use the same Standard and Administrator types identified in the Windows 7 User Accounts article but there has been an addition to these two account types. Users of local accounts can only access data on that single computer. Local accounts are used only on the computer the account is created on whereas Microsoft accounts can be used across multiple computer as the account settings are stored online. The other account type used for creating accounts used in Windows 7 has been renamed to Local account. This account is an online account called a Microsoft account. In Windows 8, Microsoft introduced a new type of account. In this article, I will looking at Windows 8 user accounts and the differences from Windows 7. Windows 8/8.1 shares some similarities with the Windows 7 user accounts but there are also differences.
In a previous article for Windows 7 User Accounts, I discussed the different types of user accounts and how to create new accounts.