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Microsoft: You need to fix your Skype and Microsoft account issues, this is insane

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Re: Microsoft: You need to fix your Skype and Microsoft account issues, this is insane

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Post by douche »

I've got at least three different Microsoft accounts with the same email address. Supposedly there's a way to link them, so that this becomes less of a clusterfuck, but I've never been able to make that work. So it's just this big mishmash of resources associated more or less at random between these different accounts.

It's russian roulette every time I try to login to something that's authenticated with Microsoft accounts, and trying to remember which login I need to use to access which resources is more than I can keep track of, across outlook, MSDN, forums, Azure, Active Directory, etc, etc.

Re: Microsoft: You need to fix your Skype and Microsoft account issues, this is insane

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Post by raisedbyninjas »

maxfurman wrote: post #9

This is bad, and I'm not letting Microsoft off the hook here. But, there's an easy workaround for this particular case: Use an alias, such as myrealemail+msft@example.com, for the new account.

Just tested, My office 365 account bounces for this type of address.

Re: Microsoft: You need to fix your Skype and Microsoft account issues, this is insane

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Post by zamalek »

By ways of some bad choices I wound up with 3 Microsoft accounts. I never knew which services were on each.

In addition to those 3 accounts, I had 2 Office accounts (one for work, one personal). Notwithstanding that the O365 sign in really can't handle two accounts on the same browser (by ways of automatic redirects) - I didn't know if services were on O365 or Live. MSDN and VSTS do not support O365 login, so I had to tell my Live account to claim my MSDN keys. It's nuts.

I eventually just forget about accounts. I stopped using O365 for personal email. Don't use O365 for anything personal, you will pay hell for it (for more reasons than merely sign in).

Re: Microsoft: You need to fix your Skype and Microsoft account issues, this is insane

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Post by douche »

viggity wrote: post #3

Microsoft's accounts are just managed horribly in general. I've got two microsoft accounts for work and one for personal. The personal one I separate out by having a different chrome profile. However, for work, I have to wrestle with the login screen for about 6 iterations everytime I want a new tab. I use one MS account for azure, another for office 365. Regardless of which one I enter/select, it always prompts me f…

You've basically got to commit to using different browsers for different accounts.

Re: Microsoft: You need to fix your Skype and Microsoft account issues, this is insane

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Post by mnm1 »

Skype accounts are fucked. Try signing in on Skype for Linux with two different accounts. If you're lucky, you'll experience the contact shuffle where some contacts are moved from one account to another and others randomly deleted from both accounts. I mostly stopped using Skype after that one.

Re: Microsoft: You need to fix your Skype and Microsoft account issues, this is insane

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Post by badthingfactory »

gnud wrote: post #6
badthingfactory wrote: post #5

It looks like [email] is used with more than one account. Which account do you want to use? - Work or school account - Personal account I get this prompt every time I try to log into Azure with my work email. If I choose the work account (the most intuitive option) my azure subscription list is empty. I have to log out and select the other option. Why is there a difference and why isn't this transparent? I am authent…

As I understand it, the work account is actually tied to your company's office 365 subscription or something like that. The private account is the one created by you. If anyone knows the exact difference, please explain! Would be greatly appreciated.

That's a nice theory, but we don't have office 365 and I didn't create the account haha.

Re: Microsoft: You need to fix your Skype and Microsoft account issues, this is insane

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Post by anotheryou »

badthingfactory wrote: post #5

It looks like [email] is used with more than one account. Which account do you want to use? - Work or school account - Personal account I get this prompt every time I try to log into Azure with my work email. If I choose the work account (the most intuitive option) my azure subscription list is empty. I have to log out and select the other option. Why is there a difference and why isn't this transparent? I am authent…

every freaking time...

The other day I wanted to check if a windows key I had is still valid for another fresh installation before wiping my HDD. I don't even remeber the whole endavour, but I had to install some specific MS software for it...

Amazon manages to keep multiple accounts of mine, with the same email, but different passwords.

Re: Microsoft: You need to fix your Skype and Microsoft account issues, this is insane

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Post by kazinator »

Skype no longer works on my wife's Windows 7 laptop. The latest update was pushed without being accompanied by the new MSVC DLL's that it needs, and so doesn't start. I haven't been able to install the redistributable run-time separately, and so it is in a foobared state.
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