People (Windows)

People was a contact management app and address book included in Microsoft's Windows 8 and 10. It allows a user to organize and link contacts from different email accounts. People has a unique graphical interface, unlike Windows Contacts' File Explorer-based interface, based on the Metro design language that had already been used for Outlook.com and the integrated online People service. In addition to being an address book, it provides a list of recent mail conversations with a selected contact. It used to also be a social media hub, in which users could integrate their social networking accounts (e.g. Twitter), but API changes in both Windows and social media services caused this functionality to break.

People worked with other Metro-style apps, but it had its own front-end interface and could be opened by end users. Unlike Windows Contacts, it did not currently allow users to import or export .pst files, vCard files, Windows Address Book files, or other files directly. Instead, it gathered contact information from email accounts the user has set up on other services in Windows, such as Mail and Calendar, Skype Preview, or the Xbox app. Changes, additions, and deletions made in the People app would be exported to the corresponding email accounts. Users could select which accounts should display contact info in People.

The People app supported Outlook.com People, Google Contacts, iCloud contacts, Yahoo! contacts, and other contact lists that could be imported by logging into an email account.