On 2014-10-01, Joe User wrote:
On 01/10/14 00:45, Silver Slimer wrote:
On 2014-09-30 6:28 PM, Roderick Stewart wrote:
On Tue, 30 Sep 2014 22:00:32 +0100, Joe User wrote:

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Another reason to use Linux.

That is probably the dumbest thing ever written in this newsgroup. Your
statement either suggests that old machines running GNU/Linux can't
possibly have a hardware issue which kills the machine or that GNU/Linux
aren't in the habit of forgetting their Skype user credentials as though
as they're somehow superior.

This is probably the dumbest thing I've read in this thread. It's not
about forgetting passwords it's about requiring a whole new Microsoft
account. Comprehension difficulties?

Probably. It is more insidious than that as even the ereaders for a
pc from Barnes & Noble and Amazon require the need to use the
windows to get the reader; they're no longer available for download
at their respective sites which means an email addr.

I'm back on win8 (8.1.1) because I tried to changed my boot from
mbr to uefi; messed things up by not setting the bios before trying
& didn't "backup" as didn't need to backup data which were on 2 other
drives, not the separate boot hdd.

Found that my upgrade usb install could not be activated; did the
2 install method by just running the setup.exe on the usb & still
had to call for activation. The thing is that some updates require
the the "user" must have a m$ email-id which will be used to id
the user! Had to use the email-id to continue; something got changed
during 1 of the updates! At least I was able to change back to a local
account BUT had to use a different name as what I used is no longer
id for my local account on the start of the install but is now id'ed
with the email-id.

Haven't tried it yet but wonder if I will have to switch users when
accessing the store.....

m$ is becoming more tyrannical to be like crapple.