Did you kill Skype last week?

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Tom Raftery
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I did!

Skype are claiming that with their outage last week was due to massive numbers of people re-starting their computers after downloading Microsoft’s monthly software update!

I am sure they are correct, despite how implausible it sounds.

I am just curious about how Skype managed to keep the service running every other month that Microsoft has released patches.

UPDATE: – Skype have published a more detailed explanation of the outage.

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3 responses to “Did you kill Skype last week?”

  1. cormac avatar
    cormac

    Tom,
    There was a new Windows client released a few days before the outage as far as I can remember. Maybe the outage was triggered by those using the latest client rather than previous ones?

  2. Kris Hoet avatar
    Kris Hoet

    Hey Tom – there’s an update about this issue on the Skype blog posted today that explains the connection

    http://heartbeat.skype.com/2007/08/the_microsoft_connection_explained.html

    – Kris

  3. Tom Raftery avatar
    Tom Raftery

    Thanks Kris – post updated.