Changing Skype password directs me to Microsoft: confusion

[nomadreid]

Wishing to change my Skype password (because I forgot to record or save it and hence forgot it and can't retrieve it, as the password is not visible anywhere), I let my computer sign in to Skype automatically, then
>Settings>Profile>Change Password
Whereupon I get a screen that looks like this

This is confusing: am I re-setting my Microsoft password, or my Skype password, by filling in this page?
Thanks for the help.

 

[FactChecker]

Microsoft owns Skype. Skype is part of Microsoft services. I don't know if the passwords are related or identical. I don't use Skype, but this sounds similar to the way Google owns Youtube and they have the same password. So changing one also changes the other.

 

[nomadreid]

Thanks, FactChecker. But I do know that the passwords for Skype and for Microsoft are different passwords. (I have a second Skype account, with a different password to my Microsoft account.) So, it is still not clear to me: when I fill in the above, what password am I changing?

 

[pbuk]

I have a second Skype account, with a different password to my Microsoft account.

That is not accurate. You have a a second Microsoft account, with a different identity (probably a different email address), on which Skype is also enabled.

So, it is still not clear to me: when I fill in the above, what password am I changing?

You would be changing the password to your Microsoft account.

Edit: see https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb...-account-d89a3dcd-909a-4d13-8d36-cd460d7801e3

 

[nomadreid]

Super, bpuk. "You would be changing the password to your Microsoft account." Direct, clear answer.

"You have a second Microsoft account, with a different identity (probably a different email address), on which Skype is also enabled." Thank you for that correction. You are correct, it is a different email address.

Thanks also for the link. I see that the link is from this year (the exact date does not seem to be noted), so I presume that the 23 Nov 2023 answer from this source
https://www.easeus.com/key-finder/find-skype-password.html
which states
"the Microsoft and Skype passwords are not the same".
is either outdated or simply wrong.

So, thanks again to both you, pbuk, and FactChecker. Case closed.