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New users were eventually prompted to use MS accounts to sign in, while legacy Skype usernames were prompted to (permanently) link to MS accounts. It wasn't historically because it was originally a separate company, but that strategy was changed after Skype was acquired. It shouldn’t be this difficult to simply close an account of a messaging software.Īgain, it's an interconnected part of their services now. Skype, regardless of what Microsoft defines it as, is a messaging software. The services are inextricably linked to your account, entirely independent of Windows. You can have a Microsoft account - with integrated Skype, Onedrive, Outlook, Office 365 and Xbox services - without ever using Windows.

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Your MS account isn't a Windows account, it's a Microsoft account. Skype isn’t as interconnected to Windows itself like Onedrive is, I'm absolutely astonished that it's impossible to perform such a basic task now. This is seriously a joke, in the truest form.

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I'm not spending more money just to close down my MS account, which will also wreck havoc on all my Windows 10 installations. I'd honestly have no issue with closing my MS account, but I have purchased apps on there, that I presumably cannot transfer to another account. Microsoft, what the fuck? Who seriously suggested to permanently link one Skype account to a MS account, that was impossible to eradicate unless the MS account was closed as a whole? Just a couple months back, I was able to easily shut down my Skype account without it affecting my MS account. Here's the catch when you close your Skype account, your MS account is closed as well. Unfazed, I requested him to just close my Skype account. That's right it's impossible to unlink your Skype account from your MS account now. So I contacted one, and he said that the feature isn't just not currently available, but it's just flat out not available. I just tried to unlink my old Skype account from my MS account, and I was told that the feature is not currently available.

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