Once installed, you can get at this from the Windows 8.1 desktop (which looks remarkably like “old” Windows, and is therefore the best feature 😉 ) and use Skype as you were expecting, without being forced to sign up yet another account just to achieve one thing. Anything less that that is NOT common sense.

You can download that from the following link: Actually IT IS NOT COMMON SENSE Common sense would be for Microsoft to use the existing accounts, since it is an 'upgrade', without EVER prompting one to do anything else. the Commission held that those two markets are different for three reasons.78 (1) Differences in the willingness to pay for the service. Simple! Install the “old” desktop client for Skype, which allows you to login with your Skype username and password. Who has one of those in our office? Nobody. The pre-loaded “modern” Skype asked for a Microsoft account… We recently ordered and received some new machines at the Silicon Dales office, and, because clients often send us files in Microsoft formats, and we like to have familiarity with the latest Operating Systems our clients are likely to be using (and their idiosyncracies) for our conversations with them, one of the machines we’ve built has Windows 8 – Windows 8.1, to be precise – installed.Īs our team regularly conferences with each other, and our clients, via Skype, we tried to get this setup on Windows 8.1. This tutorial describes how to download and use Skype without a Microsoft Account – something the version of Skype pre-installed on later copies of Microsoft Windows doesn’t seem to allow.

Skype sign up without microsoft