If you want to make your account extra secure, make sure you’re not using the same legacy Skype password with your Microsoft account to prevent anyone from hacking your account with your old information. Once you completed the steps, Skype will be merged with your Microsoft account, and now you’ll have a single password, which you can use with your email address or Skype name to sign in to Microsoft services. Merge accounts using your Microsoft account passwordĬomplete Skype and Microsoft account merge If your Skype account is already linked to a Microsoft account, you’ll prompt to enter the password of Microsoft account to do the merge. Your Skype account is now a Microsoft account So now same with regular Skype account - in order to remove the account from the system it must be done by a Skype customer representative.Sign out of your Microsoft account if you’re signed in.Įnter your Skype credentials and click Next. the body is still there but the backbone is gone (just for comparison). Once you unlink the said account, the general term used is it will be 'deleted' since you are going to remove the said Microsoft email address from the Skype Tech ID it's like you are removing the backbone of a person. So it's like your Skype Tech account with the Tech ID uses your Microsoft email address as its backbone to be able to work and log in properly. Support agent: "Creating a Skype account using your Microsoft account creates a system generated Skype ID that you can access using your Microsoft email and password. You have to contact Skype support to get the'zombie' account totally removed. It continues to exist indefinitely, and remains visible in the Skype directory if you search for it by username or email. However the account itself is not removed through a cascading delete (although you would have thought that was a logical thing to do). With no remaining linked login systems, nobody else can log into it either. When you click 'delete' in the Skype Web interface, the system actually just unlinks the Microsoft account. Slightly edited to improve spelling and grammar, but otherwise unchanged. The answer comes from a chat with Skype support.
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