Managing accounts is a massive problem everywhere. I recently moved from Australia to the USA, and I have been having this problem ad-nauseam. Try switching your Google developer account to a US bank, or your amazon, paypal or god knows how many others. I accidentally put skype credits on the wrong skype account, and was hoping to be able to merge accounts somehow, but ending up just deciding it wasn't worth the $20.
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
#32As much as I dislike Google services. Their account stuff just works. For everything they create. It just works.
I love MS stuff, but they have the worst account process ever, closely followed by Apple.
I do wish MS would sort their act out in regards to accounts.
I lost my Xbox account trying to transfer my games and such between my windows live account and an old account. Lost my games and points and credits :(
Re: Microsoft: You need to fix your Skype and Microsoft account issues, this is insane
#33Try using Skype for business... Your chat history is gone when you switch to another app and is not even saved on a PC. It's always the question if a chat ends up on your laptop of mobile. You frequently miss chats or have a "you missed a chat" email, even though you were logged in. It is an insanely poor product. I guess it's not where their focus is. It could easily be a Slack alternative except that it is so bad.
> "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 to meet some corp requirement).
Re: Microsoft: You need to fix your Skype and Microsoft account issues, this is insane
#34This 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.
This is why I use Postfix and Cyrus for my personal mail. I get Postfix to pre-parse transform the '-' char to '+'; this way I can use email addresses that stupid systems don't barf at but can still get mail delivered to the right mailbox (including sub mailbox if it exists). e.g. me-junk@mydomain.tld goes directly to my junk mail box :)
Re: Microsoft: You need to fix your Skype and Microsoft account issues, this is insane
#35Yes, they need to fix a lot of things. Also if you use Onedrive online, you are automatically logged into Skype every time you use onedrive. You cannot log out. You can set yourself invisible, but you will be set back to online next time you log in again. It is ridiculous.
Another point is that you cannot use a "work account" you use in office365 as your personal account for OneDrive etc.
Re: Microsoft: You need to fix your Skype and Microsoft account issues, this is insane
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's a nice theory, but we don't have office 365 and I didn't create the account haha.
The 'non-company' account is created manually by signing up for a new microsoft account and then clicking the activation link in the email you receive. The school/work account is somehow created by a company administrator, but I don't know exactly how or where.
This sounds right. So this prompt is essentially asking me to tell them which buttons my boss pressed when he created my account.
Re: Microsoft: You need to fix your Skype and Microsoft account issues, this is insane
#37Skype 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.
Oh man, mine too! I have to use the web app!
Re: Microsoft: You need to fix your Skype and Microsoft account issues, this is insane
#38It 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.
Yes, but as a consumer I don't care about that differentiation.. Just make it transparent.. merge my authorization rules or something...
Gawd.. You're microsoft, you can create a whole new security protocol. Don't have this half baked persona solution.
If you can't figure this out, it really reinforces the reason for every time we come across something in Azure where we're like wtf isn't this feature supported?
Re: Microsoft: You need to fix your Skype and Microsoft account issues, this is insane
#39C'mon folks, this is Microsoft you're talking about. They put the 'ame' in lame. Why would you expect more?
Re: Microsoft: You need to fix your Skype and Microsoft account issues, this is insane
#40Managing accounts is a massive problem everywhere. I recently moved from Australia to the USA, and I have been having this problem ad-nauseam. Try switching your Google developer account to a US bank, or your amazon, paypal or god knows how many others. I accidentally put skype credits on the wrong skype account, and was hoping to be able to merge accounts somehow, but ending up just deciding it wasn't worth the $20.
I lived in the US, got a paypal account, all good. Moved to sweden, updated address + bank info, still ok. Moved back to USA, now: "You cannot change your country of residence. If you have moved open a new paypal account". WTF? This is a paypal account I've had since the early 2000's.