Skype Shutdown and moving to teams

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As you are aware Skype will be shutting down in May.

I have noticed that several people have commented that if you download skype you now get ‘Personal Teams’ instead of skype.

So we wondered if you could add skype to corporate teams.

Yes, it’s easy, you just click on your picture, ‘Add another Account’ and select your skype account, which might be in the presented list.

BUT BE WARNED!!!

For me it had my personal account listed, so I added that, but my skype contacts list was empty.

Hmm, why is that, I thought.

Well, it turns out that I have two personal Microsoft accounts, my personal account to which my computer is registered and another personal account which is my skype account.

So, oh well, I’ll just add the other account, but that results in a message “Multiple personal accounts aren’t supported in Teams yet.”

So, well, I thought, I’ll just disconnect one personal account and connect to the skype one.

Turns out this cannot be done, the MS document describing how to do it says

“To remove your Teams account, you must delete the entire Microsoft account it’s associated with.”

So hopefully I’ve saved someone some heartache.

If anyone can help me with mine I’d appreciate it

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Teams is an abomination - and the same goes for Microsoft authentication - a total mess that is impossible to untangle.

I recently bought O365 for family use - I tried very hard to disconnect it from my business - it took me 2 days just to be able to log out of microsoft enough to be able to create a new persona; account - only to find when I log back into my work microsoft account it has changed my billing onto my personal credit card. WTF.

I still use skype with family overseas, I won’t be using teams with them - I don’t need the support headache!

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lol. Teams is the worst software there is, and that’s saying something. Though it’s not as woefully bad as it used to be

Most of my contacts are going Signal, and some are going whatsApp.

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I am glad someone else is recommending Signal!
I have been trying to get clients / family to ditch other messengers (mostly nasty Facebook messenger) for the open-source Signal messaging app.
With “no ads, no affiliate marketers, and no creepy tracking” (as claimed on the Signal site.)

But amazingly still a hard sell !
(People astonishingly put up with the nasty aspects of the main apps)

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What ads on FB messenger? What ‘nasty Facebook Messenger’?

I find Signal to have vaguely illegal/immoral connotations, somehow.

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The simple answer is that the Message “Multiple personal accounts aren’t supported in Teams yet” is a bit misleading, it should read “Multiple, simultaneous, personal accounts aren’t supported in Teams yet”.

So all you do is sign out of one personal account and you can sign in into another. Simples.

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No reason to think that. It is just an app that values the users privacy, keeping conversations and contacts private from business and government surveillance. I’m sure there is bad/illegal stuff going on it, but that happens on the internet as well.

Facebook Messenger is a way to download peoples address books in there phones and create friendship graphs and marketing data to be used in the main Facebook site / Application. It even uses location information to correlate between other users, so that it can work out other people that might be known by you and what businesses and places you go to and use.

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Are you really asking why “Nasty Facebook”?
Aapparently you’re the only person not to know of many / many Facebook scandals.
If you need a start look up “Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal” and be prepared for a real rabbit hole of all the “Nasty” Facebook is / has done!

Also, I did not state Facebook Messenger has ads, (just Signal that has NO ads, and Signal has NO data collection)
Definitely NOT true about Facebook Messenger!
Look at website on “The terrifying amount of data Facebook Messenger collects compared to Signal, iMessage, and WhatsApp”

“I find Signal to have vaguely illegal/immoral connotations”
REALLY??? An open source fully upfront app!
What and you don’t think Facebook Messenger is MASSIVELY has illegal/immoral connotations.

[Edit - No making assumptions about members’ politics, please]

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Hmm, AFAIK Facebook and Messenger are two different apps, at least have been for a while now. The article you are pointing to seems to not understand that, and indeed seems to have other prejudices as well. Not that I am endorsing Messenger, just saying it isn’t as bad as you are trying to make out.

I still recall going to Whatsapp for the first time, and it refusing to work unless I gave it access to my contact list, and then ‘using’ that contact list to inform my contacts that I was on Whatsapp, when really I only wanted to contact a very limited amount of people using it.

Signal, well I don’t trust open source all that much as it’s “all care (if any gatekeeper member cares) and no responsibility”. Look at that “back door scandal”, that was, probably luckily, caught whilst trying to be inserted into ‘XZ Utils’ and ultimately SSH.

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Perhaps a little off topic,

But I have heard that if the connectivity is poor, near non-existent,
Whatsapp will get messages through where nothing much else will.

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I have always used WhatsApp and phone calls and video links are good as I used it today. Microsoft purchased skype for USD 1 billion and now trashing it.
Microsoft email server unless you pay them its trash to use
They are loosing the internet race as revenue must be slack in this sector for them
I think this is just the beginning of there wows personally

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(The original writers sold it to eBay in 2005 for $2.6 Billion)

MS paid 8.5 billion for it in 2011.

In 2014 40% of international phone calls were done through Skype

(Sources WikiPedia)

Over the history of IT, when one company buys out another with ‘similar’ products they always tend to ‘try’ and add some of the worthwhile features of the purchased product and eventually ‘phase out’ that same purchased product. Really, nothing new under the Sun.

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