Skype and Windows Live
 

Since Microsoft is refusing to do anything, I wonder if any of you might have an answer to this.

So you can now merge your skype and messenger contacts together now. Did that. Next time I logged in, they were gone except one due to the fact that he was actually online at the time. What can I do about this? D:

The only think I know for sure is that mine has three lists, Skype, Facebook, and Messenger contacts. So unless I set it to show them all at once, it only shows one set at a time.

Well, the weird thing is that ONE Windows Live contact shows. So I know it at least half way worked. And it did show all my contacts...once. But not anymore.

Are you sure it isn't just showing the ones who are online? I know Skype has that option.

I have never turned on that option because some people appear offline when they are online.

And I have messed with that option to see if it did anything and it doesn't.

I was wondering how the merge worked since I have both MSN and skype but under different names, and possibly different e-mails. Not sure about my Skype account details anymore. Does this mean I'll have two potential skype accounts?

You merge them and then login with Windows Live on Skype.

Then pray that your contacts stick around.

What will this do to my e-mail, if anything?

Nothing. Windows Live Mail is sticking around.

By the way, I suspect part of the problem with contacts disappearing is that it /only works for people with Skype accounts/. Any Windows Live Messenger user that hasn't signed up for Skype won't be able to be found.

That is stupid. What's the point of merging them then? If they had skype, I wouldn't need to merge. And I don't know if that one friend has skype or not .-.

Because when THEY run the Skype migration tool, YOU have an account, and they'll find you so you'll get a notification basically as soon as they register.

And what if they never run it? That's the problem. If I had known I wouldn't be able to contact them using skype when I fused the accounts...I would've never bothered. If they know that's how it was going to work, they should've said something so there wouldn't be five billion posts in this one thread there about contacts not working right.

At least I know why now. Maybe I should post what you said in that thread. It might help some people.

If they never run it they've got their head under a rock, because that's the only way to keep your MSN friends after March.

You mean you can't log into MSN Messenger with your account anymore?

Some people aren't going to migrate especially when the contacts don't move over. Some will just move to a different thing altogether like AIM.

I don't know whether I can or can't. I got skype because I wanted to have one messenger. So I was happy to hear they were fusing, but they don't fuse right.

I wonder what they'll do to the ones who don't migrate over. Do they just lose all their contacts? Why can't they literally fuse the things together..like how you could add yahoo contacts to windows live...

They're NOT fusing. That's part of the problem. Microsoft is just RECOMMENDING that MSN users move to Skype.

Yeah, but that's what they need to do, not literally fuse, but fuse the accounts at least and let me log in with my skype to get both and them work.

And they're getting rid of windows live so it's about the same thing really for people.

I don't know. I haven't downloaded Skype again. I had problems with it not logging me in long ago.

I did try signing in via my Skype app on my phone with my MSN, and it would only show me who was online, but if you looked at "all contacts" I think it showed everyone. I don't know how to change any settings. I fear when the switch happens. =/

Mine only showed one person online and none of my other contacts period. None of them. They were all gone-they weren't even listed as offline while my skype contacts were fine, they were showing online and offline.

It'll be March. That's all I know...after March only mainland China will have windows live.

March 15th. I know, But when I signed on via my app, I refused it to merge the two accounts. And maybe that's why I didn't have the same problem? I'm debating about not using it unless I'm on my cellphone. Skype wouldn't let me log in when I was using it on my computer.

I don't log in with my windows live account anymore since it never worked right. Why waste my time on it?

When I log in with just my skype, nothing's wrong...since the windows live stuff will only show when you sign in using that account (that you have with it) which when I do that ONE contact different shows up from my windows live -.-

Skype doesn't like to work on my computer. Not sure why. I may give it a second try though.

Which OS? Win8 Skype sucks, use Win7 Skype in desktop mode.

I have issues with skype but I attribute that to my crummy connection. As it is, there's really only one person who I chat on MSN that doesn't have skype and I warned them about the upcoming drop of MSN. Anyone else I can warn on facebook.