Re: Skype failure blamed on XP, Vista updates

HeyBub wrote:
"Skype, the internet telephony provider, said today that a massive, simultaneous restart of its users' computers was to blame for the two-day outage its service suffered last week.

"Millions of users collectively downloading a routine security update from Microsoft and then rebooting their machines had caused what the company called a "critical disruption", prompting its peer-to-peer network to collapse. "

Go ahead, blame Microsoft...



Well, of course it was Microsoft's fault that Skype's servers couldn't handle the load. ;-}


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