I should have raised this issue long time ago but why should I do so, after all its not like they're paying me to fix their shits.
I basically moved from Skype to Zoom.us with all my clients
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
#162Surface tech support messed me up with this as well. Somehow my personal email which I only never use and made to get minecraft for 10 that I will never play was getting all the emails about my bad dock. I feel bad when I deal with Microsoft it's a bad feeling I wish I didn't have to stay with Microsoft I would leave but where would I go? I'm to old to start over and the kids what about the children?
Re: Microsoft: You need to fix your Skype and Microsoft account issues, this is insane
#163https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/5jg8y6/fyi_crimin... Reddit discusses hackers using weak Skype credentials to access other MS accounts and bypass 2FA
thanks for this, i couldn't figure out months ago how could be my Microsoft account compromised despite using 2FA, seem after this hack and resetting all of my security settings they removed ability to sign in with old Skype account since when i went to check it now it was already unchecked
though i still see in recent activity unsuccessful attempts for IMAP synchronization from all over world, not sure if they are trying to use some old app password, which i reset after discovering have
Re: Microsoft: You need to fix your Skype and Microsoft account issues, this is insane
#164Earlier quoted context omitted.
> "Try using Skype for business... Your chat history is gone when you switch to another app and is not even saved on a PC." Assuming you're in a corp environment, that's likely an IT decision, not a MS one. If you go to Options -> Personal there are two checkboxes for saving IM conversations and call logs in your Conversation History folder in Outlook. Mine are grayed out because IT decided to disable them (I'm sure…
Our IT has done this as well...I'm told there are privacy requirements in Germany that equate logging chat history to eavesdropping on phone conversations, so it's illegal to log chat histories. This is insanely annoying since it's easy to accidentally close an active chat window and once the window's closed, the history is permanently gone.
I also work for a German company, so that my explain it for me as well.
Re: Microsoft: You need to fix your Skype and Microsoft account issues, this is insane
#165I am also having a Microsoft account issue that is similar to this.
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook_com/forum/oaccou...
Difference for me is that I have no idea how the work account was created. I do an have Office365 account from my employer but we just recently switched and I had this problem before that account was created. Also, that Office365 account is linked to my actual work email. The problem I am experiencing is a "work" account that was mysteriously created on my personal email and it makes no sense. Over a month and no one has responded.
Anyone here have any ideas?
Re: Microsoft: You need to fix your Skype and Microsoft account issues, this is insane
#166It 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…
What's sometimes really bothersome to me, is when I had autologin in either chrome and/or my lastpass, and it would constantly push through the right or wrong password and/or account, because they're on different screens.
Though the more bothersome one in my mind, is that I can't login to gmail in chrome without attaching it to chrome... I don't want to attach my work email to my home chrome browser (which forces a couple extensions, and my home page). So I've opted to run both Chrome Canary (work) and Chrome release (home/personal)... It seems even worse UX when you have multiple google accounts you want to keep separate.
As to Skype, it's been weird since MS bought them, and I remember having great pain migrating/attaching to my MS account so I can have a single login, and it was just weird for some while.
Aside: I'm glad google domains includes DNS and email forwarders, so I can keep my really old domain emails forwarding to my gmail so I can on occasion recover old accounts.
Re: Microsoft: You need to fix your Skype and Microsoft account issues, this is insane
#167Earlier quoted context omitted.
Google does the same thing when a customer previously used their own "branded" email for Google services, and then switches to use G Suite (formally Google Apps). Every login will prompt to select the organizational account, or the personal account. Not sure why only MS is being called out for it ... they probably modeled their system after Google.
That's not what Google does. (Edit: It sounds like Google used to do this. I switched to G Suite very recently and did not end up with an account in this state.) If you have an existing joe@example.com Google account and then sign up for G Suite as the owner of example.com, what happens is the old joe@example.com account gets divorced from its email and given a new temporary name. You can then change it to a new @gma…
I got into a confused state with my Youtube account where I have two accounts linked to the same Google account. One of them lists all my subscriptions but doesn't allow me to comment. The other one can comment but says it has no subscriptions on the sidebar but I can see all of my subscriptions if I click the subscriptions button.
I occasionally have to perform some bizarre incantation once in a blue moon to switch accounts when I want to comment on something and then switch back so I can see my subscriptions again.
Re: Microsoft: You need to fix your Skype and Microsoft account issues, this is insane
#168Skype also has a knack for randomly asking you to input a security code that it'll text or call you with, except... When I have recently needed to do it, I got 0 call or text. The email Skype offers to send a code to, in my case, isn't the email associated with the account but some old email that no longer exists (old recovery email I think). So I'm effectively locked out of my account on any new device for the time being, and getting zero feedback when reaching out to customer support. It is a maddeningly bad user experience, and I cannot believe a company like microsoft would let such crippling bugs exist on such widely distributed products.
Re: Microsoft: You need to fix your Skype and Microsoft account issues, this is insane
#169It 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.
Amazon does this because, when it was founded, it was common for entire families to share the same email account so they built in support for multiple accounts mapped to the same email address. I knew someone who was in charge of maintaining it and it was a legacy nightmare mess.
Re: Microsoft: You need to fix your Skype and Microsoft account issues, this is insane
#170Someone has been successfully running brute forced attempts at login into accounts & spreading/amassing valid usernames & attempting brute force logins on them like a pyramid.
My password of alphanumeric password of 9 digits got cracked & Skype fucking sent spam to everyone & now is most likely attempting to brute force their accounts as well.....they can't even implement a rate limiter for the logins against an IP.