For Skype users who created their accounts using their Microsoft accounts, their account IDs are the same as their Live IDs, but these IDs don’t show up anywhere on Skype and the email addresses for their Microsoft accounts are considered their Skype usernames instead.

Instead, the email address for your Microsoft account becomes your Skype username and that’s what you use to sign in to your Skype account, although you can also use the phone number associated with your Microsoft account and, by extension, your Skype account. If you sign up for Skype using your Microsoft account (the account you use for all of your Microsoft products – Windows, Xbox, Microsoft Office, what have you) you don’t have to go through the trouble of creating a username for your Skype account.

As of this writing, there exist two different kinds of Skype accounts – Skype accounts that were created with a specific Skype ID, and Skype accounts created using Microsoft accounts (which, as a result, do not have Skype IDs at all). Your Skype name is what is commonly referred to as a “Skype ID”. Your Skype name is the username you signed up for Skype when you first created your Skype account. Skype users can sign in to their Skype accounts using their Skype names, the email addresses associated with their Skype accounts or the phone numbers associated with their Skype accounts (and, obviously their Skype accounts’ passwords).

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