[nfbcs] Need important help with Skype!

[Curtis Chong]

Greetings:

Recommend you sign into Skype through your browser and check your account details.  There should be a setting there to unlink your account from Microsoft.

Cordially,

Curtis Chong

-----Original Message-----
>From: Jim Portillo <portillo.jim at gmail.com>
>Sent: Sep 25, 2013 11:49 AM
>To: 'NFB in Computer Science Mailing List' <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
>Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Need important help with Skype!
>
>That's just it.  I have none of those things to begin with!
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Steve Jacobson
>Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 10:43 AM
>To: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List
>Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Need important help with Skype!
>
>Jim,
>
>Windows Live recently changed from having their own messaging service to
>using Skype.  This could be happening because you had a Windows Live,
>Hotmail, or outlook.com address.  I wonder if there is an option somewhere
>that has to be disabled.  If you do have a LIVE.COM, HOTMAIL.COM or
>OUTLOOIK.COM email address, you could try using that until you figure this
>out.
>
>Best regards,
>
>Steve Jacobson
>
>
>On Wed, 25 Sep 2013 09:11:21 -0700, Jim Portillo wrote:
>
>>Hi there.
>
>>This is all done at home.
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of I. C. Bray
>>Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 3:34 AM
>>To: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List
>>Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Need important help with Skype!
>
>>Jim,
>>Are you at work, or behind someone's firewall?  You may be getting 
>>asked to log on from that for credentials to use the outside internet.
>
>>Are you certain that you are able to web surf?  I know I'm asking an 
>>obvious
>>Q: here, but sometimes it is the little things that gt us...
>
>>Can you think of ANY changes since you last used Skype.
>
>>I know I use Skype with family often from home, when I need a pair of 
>>eyes in a pinch, but I haven't heard of it using Microsoft login either.
>
>>Also,If anyone has a good shortcut list for tutorial for Skype, I would 
>>certainly appreciate having the knowledge as well.
>
>>Respectfully,
>
>>Ian  C. Bray
>
>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Jim Portillo" <portillo.jim at gmail.com>
>>To: "Jim Portillo" <portillo.jim at gmail.com>
>>Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 5:25 AM
>>Subject: [nfbcs] Need important help with Skype!
>
>
>>: Hi there,
>>:
>>:
>>:
>>: I need some quick help with Skype.  I have no idea what has happened, 
>>but
>>: it's doing something weird or different, and I have an important 
>>skype
>>: meeting tomorrow.
>>:
>>:
>>:
>>: I'd not used Skype on my computer for a little bit, and when I tried 
>>signing
>>: in with my skype name and password, rather than taking me to the 
>>initial
>>: sign in screen, it took me to something telling me to sign in with my
>>: Microsoft account.  I don't even have a Microsoft account, but I 
>>literally
>>: had no other choices, and I have not been able to sign in normally.
>>:
>>: I looked in the limited menus and such.  I even went so far as to 
>>remove the
>>: program and reinstall it.  Nothing has worked, and now every time I 
>>activate
>>: Skype, it takes me to the screen asking me to sign in with my 
>>Microsoft
>>: Account.
>>:
>>: What do I do about this?  I've googled but can't really find any good
>>: answer.
>>:
>>: Did the new Skype update have anything to do with this?"
>>:
>>: Thanks.
>>:
>>: Jim
>>:
>>:
>>:
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