This is now a pattern that I've witnessed on at least 7 new Live accounts. Instead, they just lock your account and ask you to unlock it. This is ridiculous: in effect, you can't have a Live account without giving your cell phone number, but MS won't tell you that upfront. To be perfectly honest, I think MS is just harvesting phone numbers - since that's what's required to unlock these accounts. I also created a Live account with a gmail address, and it got blocked too. The new account got blocked too - nobody else knew about it.

If you paste the password, instead of typing it, MS requires you to add a phone number before allowing you to create the account.

When creating a new account, the password isn't entered twice for verification, only once.

If it doesn't exist, it won't take a password, and tells you about it.

When logging in, the username is checked separately, before entering a password.

It's worth noting that MS makes the following mistakes or odd choices while handling Skype accounts: Testing a new account now, that nobody knows about. The accounts are only used on PCs and a couple of cell phones - installed by me, with the password I assigned. just create microsoft skype account, gmail account, msn/hotmail account to log in skype for business application, and use its all function and control.

I can't find anything helpful anywhere else. I'm not violating the terms and conditions.

Passwords are long and randomly generated, so nothing has been hacked as far as I can tell.

I'm using MS's recommended practice of using regular, free Skype (we only have 10 accounts), but it has been a disaster. Does anyone else know what causes this? About 10 times now, different accounts have been locked and needed to be unlocked using a phone number and an activation code.

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