Skype Suffers Major Outage
It’s painful when Skype is offline. And this appears to be a very serious outage.
Fortunately one of my key overseas developer’s found me on MS Live Messenger, so we can still communicate.
I can’t imagine what kind of software error could take the service down for 12-24 hours. That’s not a bug - that’s some sort of infestation!
Skype
has suffered a major service outage that started from approximately 3am PST Thursday.
Skype advised
The issue was serious enough to cause Skype to temporarily disable all downloads of the Skype client.
Skype has had a very strong record of uptime previously and
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August 20th, 2007 at 7:33 am
Wow! Did you see where Skype blamed Microsoft Windows update for this issue?!?
http://bink.nu/Article10842.bink
August 20th, 2007 at 1:45 pm
According to DDJ, “Skype does not point the finger of blame at Microsoft, however, and instead acknowledges that the problem lay in the Skype network code, and that the bug was merely waiting for a large stress on the network to trigger it.” http://www.ddj.com/windows/201801172
So I think it’s a little strong, not to mention inaccurate, to say that Skype “blamed” MWU.
August 20th, 2007 at 2:39 pm
Err, ok. It did certainly illuminate weaknesses in their P2P system that without MWU they would not have discovered.
August 21st, 2007 at 2:16 pm
Skype’s official response: “We don’t blame anyone but ourselves”
http://heartbeat.skype.com/2007/08/the_microsoft_connection_explained.html
August 21st, 2007 at 9:27 pm
@Deannie - thanks for sharing that official response. I know Skype must be feeling horible that they blamed Microsoft (been there, done that).
Rob