Hopefully both Microsoft and third-party developers can put this feature to good use with new versions of applications released for Windows 7. For example, if you want to use the Windows 7 homegroup to share documents with your wife, but not your kids, you can specify her Windows Live ID user name and give her exclusive permission to access documents on your computer. So how can you put this to good use? The online provider helps enable Windows 7 applications to take advantage of sharing documents, pictures, music, and video. Just by linking your Windows Live ID to the user account on each Windows 7 computer you own, you enable those computers to identify each other and work together more easily than has been possible in the past." Here's Microsoft's official description of the release: "Through the online provider, the Sign-in Assistant helps a Windows 7 application running on one computer identify and communicate with other computers that are associated with the same Windows Live ID. More recently, Microsoft has released the 6.5 beta version of the Windows Live ID Sign-in Assistant, which allows linking a Windows Live ID to a Windows 7 user account, on the Microsoft Download Center in both 32-bit (2.3 MB) and 64-bit versions (3.9 MB).
Users were finally able to save multiple credentials on their machine, whether that was multiple accounts for one person or for multiple people.
The application originally started off as an Internet Explorer add-on that allowed the user to easily switch between Windows Live ID accounts and save their e-mail and address for future signing in. Back in May 2006, LiveSide reported that Windows Live Sign-in Assistant had arrived with a new build of Windows Live Messenger.
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