# There is a strange woman attached to my Microsoft account. What do I do? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 21, 2015, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-a-strange-woman-attached-to-my-microsoft-account-what-do-i-do/720507 "2015-05-21T12:46:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2015, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-a-strange-woman-attached-to-my-microsoft-account-what-do-i-do/720507/21 "2015-05-22T02:27:48Z")
> [@Shakes](#): > > I wonder this too. All I know is I couldn’t get a Skype account with out merging my MS account. I just gave Skype my MS account information. There was no merging of anything – a better description is “using your MS account to create a Skype profile”. ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2015, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-a-strange-woman-attached-to-my-microsoft-account-what-do-i-do/720507/22 "2015-05-22T02:29:24Z")
Something similar happened to a customer the other day. When she logged into her MS account (I believe to reinstall her Office) , there was a different woman attached to the account. I don’t know if the strange woman was named Evelyn, though. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2015, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-a-strange-woman-attached-to-my-microsoft-account-what-do-i-do/720507/23 "2015-05-22T02:31:11Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > I seem to have wandered into looking glass land… I have installed hundreds of Win OSes and have no “MS accounts”… I don’t think I’ve ever had any account of any kind with MS despite being a user/admin since DOS 3.0… You have to set one up with Windows 8 so they can “help” you. Or some damn thing like that. There’s a way around it, but you have to know about it. Also, you \*\*\*link \*\*\*your MS account with Skype when using a Win 8 platform. There’s a way around that, too, if you Google. I just used the damn MS account info. ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2015, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-a-strange-woman-attached-to-my-microsoft-account-what-do-i-do/720507/24 "2015-05-22T02:34:58Z")
It’s obvious what’s happening. Evelyn represents **Shakes** ’ feminine side, which he has repressed since youth. After so many years of struggling, “she” is trying to contact him through his MS account. This “merging” of accounts really represents the integration of **Shakes** ’ fractured psyche. Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to write a screenplay. Hold my calls. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2015, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-a-strange-woman-attached-to-my-microsoft-account-what-do-i-do/720507/25 "2015-05-22T02:42:11Z")
> [@GrumpyBunny](#): > > I just gave Skype my MS account information. There was no merging of anything – a better description is “using your MS account to create a Skype profile”. Yes, this is indeed a better way of putting it. Thanks **Grumpy**. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2015, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-a-strange-woman-attached-to-my-microsoft-account-what-do-i-do/720507/26 "2015-05-22T05:23:38Z")
> [@Sefton](#): > > It’s obvious what’s happening. Evelyn represents **Shakes** ’ feminine side, which he has repressed since youth. After so many years of struggling, “she” is trying to contact him through his MS account. > > This “merging” of accounts really represents the integration of **Shakes** ’ fractured psyche. Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to write a screenplay. Hold my calls. Hmmmm . . . so **Shakes** may actually be a genetic mosaic. That would explain a lot. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-a-strange-woman-attached-to-my-microsoft-account-what-do-i-do/720507.md?page=1)