Skype Outage Fixed! Shame on you Windows Users!
It is being reported by Tech Crunch that Skype experienced an outage a few days ago because of “a massive restart of user’s computers” that happened after recieving a Windows Update. It happened just after “Patch Tuesday” which is Microsoft’s day of the month to release patches for it’s Windows Operating System. This usually results in reboots by the following Thursday.
Skype’s Heartbeat Blog says, “The high number of restarts affected Skype’s network resources. This caused a flood of log-in requests, which, combined with the lack of peer-to-peer network resources, prompted a chain reaction that had a critical impact.”
They also wanted to thank their supportive users!