To merge Skype with your Microsoft account: Open the Skype window, and click Microsoft account. Enter your Microsoft user name and password. You will see a message saying that 'Your Skype account is now a Microsoft account'. Once you see the message, please click Next. Enter the email you want to merge the Skype account with, and click Next. Follow the steps. IMPORTANT: Linking of two Skype accounts aside from the above stated scenario is not possible. Goto www.skype.com (if it shows you are already logged in to a skype account, log out). Login with your microsoft account. It will ask you if you want to create a new skype account or link your existing one. Go with latter option. It will take you to skype login page. Enter your skype credentials that you want to link with the microsoft account. Not sure if any of the clients (windows desktop.

Earlier this month Microsoft announced a new program for Skype users, allowing them to migrate their Skype accounts to Microsoft accounts and/or link them to existing Microsoft accounts.

Here’s why you should link your Microsoft and Skype accounts to further secure them. For a while, reports have been coming in indicating that Microsoft’s Skype accounts have been hacked, with users of Skype receiving spam messages from their Skype contacts, indicating a possible breach in Skype’s security.

While Microsoft has updated Skype’s back-end to link it with their more secure Microsoft account database, this isn’t readily apparent to users of either service for some reason, as the firm hasn’t had any public communications via way of notification informing users of this change.

Here’s how you can do it:

1. Go to account.microsoft.com
2. Login to your Skype account by using your Skype specific username and password. Even if you’re already linked your account to Skype previously, you’ll still need to use your Skype details. If you’re logged into your Microsoft account, you should log out and re-sign in using your Skype details and not your Microsoft one.
3. Once that is done, you will be asked to sign in to your Microsoft account. Should you have multiple Microsoft accounts, choose the one that you would be using. For this tutorial, I’m using a dummy Skype and Microsoft account to demonstrate the process.
4. Click Next to Update your Skype account with your pre-existing Microsoft account-linking them.
5. You will be asked to enter your password, once this is done, you will be able to use your Microsoft account password -and only that – to sign into Skype.
6. If you have another Skype account which is already tangentially connected to that Microsoft account, you will be warned that this link will be terminated
7. Upon a successful login, Microsoft will alert you that you now have a single password for both Skype and other Microsoft services.

Get started and secure your Microsoft account now!

You can combine Skype and Microsoft accounts as follows:
1) Go to page http://login.live.com/
2) Enter your Skype username and click “Next”

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How Do I Merge Skype And Microsoft Account

3) Enter your Skype password and click “Sign in”
4) As a result, you will get the following message:
5) Further, depending on whether you specified before your e-mail address or not, you will need to confirm the use of this email, or you can specify a new one. Also, you have the opportunity to “Get a new email address” from @outlook.com.
CAUTION! If you are not sure in your actions and want to avoid the confusion or problems with the migration of contacts, I strongly recommend getting a new e-mail address or specify an email, which was never used for any other Skype accounts.
6) After you specified your e-mail, check the mail – there you will find “Security code to update your Skype account”. Copy it into the input box to confirm that you are the owner of the account.
7) If you have done everything correctly, by clicking on the “Next”, you will get the following message:
8) It’s rather controversial, but also very important step: you should re-confirm your email address. To do this, check the mail, and in a letter from «Microsoft account team» click on the blue button “Verify email@site.tld”.

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CAUTION! In no case don’t click on the link “Click here” which is just below this button — it cancels your actions and guarantees a heap of troubles.
9) The final chord: you should receive a confirmation that “everything is ready”.