Where does the 'People' app get it's 'People' from?

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I have loads of contacts in People that I deleted years ago. Where is the People app getting its data from? Presumably from Windows Live, but where does it get the data from?
 

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From your address book on windows live and from any other accounts you add eg. Facebook friends.
 

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Thanks. Yes, I said that about Windows Live in my post, and asked where it gets it's data from. I have never consciously put any contacts on WL, and the data on there is old and fairly useless.
 

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It imports your contacts and it doesnt matter if they're frequently used or are quite old unused ones.
 

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msn, windows live, hotmail, etc...accounts are all connected. possibly even more (with the exception of xbox live, I assume), so if you've ever had contacts in any of those, that's probably where it's getting the info from. I have people in my "people" list that I don't remember either, but I don't doubt they are people I added from one of those services long ago.
 

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Thanks guys. I hear what you are saying, but I don't use services like Hotmail, WL, msn for contacts. Facebook, yes, a bit, and I can see those OK in the 'People'.
All my calendar and contact details are held in Apple iCloud service, and I have no contacts in Outlook. I'm confused about where this data has come from (in People) as most of it is years old, with none of my new contacts from the last 2 or 3 years.
Even when I was using Outlook as my main contact tool (up to about 18 months ago), most of the stuff on People had been deleted even then.
 

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Once your contacts are in the cloud they are there forever even if you delete them.
 

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    Realtek High Definition Audio
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    1366 x 768 x 32 bits (4294967296 colors) @ 60 Hz
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What?? Your statement is somewhat concerning to say the least! in the Cloud forever! That is certainly not the case for any Cloud service I have used. The whole concept of the Cloud is to keep files, contacts, etc. in sync between all your devices. Any deletion from any device should be reflected on the Cloud server and all connected devices.
Anyway, what Cloud are you talking about here? I haven't used any of the services mentioned above.
 

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It's probably your old outlook contacts.
 

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    8 GB DDR3
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    1366 x 768 x 32 bits (4294967296 colors) @ 60 Hz
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Well, as I said above, it doesn't contain any of the contacts I put on from when I was using Outlook, but does contain all the ones I had deleted, and secondly, I didn't think that Outlook Contacts were Cloud based anyway. What Cloud service does it use?
 

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Mmm. Strange.:confused:
 

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    8 GB DDR3
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    Realtek High Definition Audio
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    1366 x 768 x 32 bits (4294967296 colors) @ 60 Hz
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    250 GB SATA Hard Disk Drive 7200 rpm
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cloud might not be the right word, but any information stored online can be kept online permanently, even after you delete the information. we might not have called it the cloud back in 1996, but even info you put up (and deleted) back then can still be found, with the right resources.
 

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OK, but from the user point of view, what is visible in the 'cloud' should be as they intended, not some sort of amalgam of deleted stuff, and missing data.
 

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welcome to the internet.
 

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    8192MB RAM
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Ok, here's a question. How do I update the contacts in People (i.e. Windows Live) with my 'real' contacts, i.e. those that are in Apple iCloud?
 

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I guess no-one knows the answer to that one.
Does anyone have activity on the People tile? I have nothing at all.
 

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I don't either. I guess it doesn't support it.
 

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    Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU M 330 @ 2.13GHz
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    Hewlett-Packard 1425
    Memory
    8 GB DDR3
    Graphics Card(s)
    Intel(R) HD Graphics
    Sound Card
    Realtek High Definition Audio
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Builtin
    Screen Resolution
    1366 x 768 x 32 bits (4294967296 colors) @ 60 Hz
    Hard Drives
    250 GB SATA Hard Disk Drive 7200 rpm
    2TB Seagate GoFlex USB 2 Drive
    1TB Iomega Prestige USB 2 Drive
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    1TB Iomega NAS.
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That was a different app which seems to have gone missing from CP.
 

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    Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU M 330 @ 2.13GHz
    Motherboard
    Hewlett-Packard 1425
    Memory
    8 GB DDR3
    Graphics Card(s)
    Intel(R) HD Graphics
    Sound Card
    Realtek High Definition Audio
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    Builtin
    Screen Resolution
    1366 x 768 x 32 bits (4294967296 colors) @ 60 Hz
    Hard Drives
    250 GB SATA Hard Disk Drive 7200 rpm
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    1TB Iomega Prestige USB 2 Drive
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    1TB Iomega NAS.
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