Re: Skype failure blamed on XP, Vista updates
- From: "Gary S. Terhune" <none>
- Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:44:48 -0700
Hope those are some darned good doughnuts.
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Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
www.grystmill.com
"HeyBub" <heybub@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Bruce Chambers wrote:
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. ;-}
Dollars to donuts Skype's servers are running Ubangi, so that can't be the
reason.
.
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