Title: I&#x27;ve just had to talk my 80-year-old father through setting up Skype on his new computer. For some reason he had to create a Microsoft account, and it was encouraging him to store <i>all</i> his documents on some drive in the cloud, and it combined his existing Skype account into the new Microsoft account, and all the while I was thinking &quot;it shouldn&#x27;t be like this.&quot;<p>It shouldn&#x27;t be the case that for what could be, should be, a single, stand-alone application such as IP-telephony, there is all this cross-linking, central registration, <i>etc., etc., etc., ...</i><p>It&#x27;s probably a consequence of Microsoft buying out Skype and forcing integration with their own universe.  So I ask, is there now an alternative to the centralized, you-will-do-everything-our-way system?  I&#x27;ve searched, but had no success.<p>Suggestions?
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