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Last week, the internet went absolutely nuts because Skype was down for a 24+ hour period. Who can blame them though? Some use Skype as their primary phone, so if it's down, it could mean a lot of things to them. So what was the problem? Believe it or not: Windows Users.
The story goes like this. Windows Updates were deployed last week, which caused a lot of people to reboot their computers at roughly the same time. This in turn overloaded the Skype login servers. Blame Windows users and blame Microsoft for developing Windows in such a way that it needs to reboot whenever some minor update is installed.
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Normally Skype’s peer-to-peer network has an inbuilt ability to self-heal, however, this event revealed a previously unseen software bug within the network resource allocation algorithm which prevented the self-healing function from working quickly. Regrettably, as a result of this disruption, Skype was unavailable to the majority of its users for approximately two days.
Source: Skype
The story goes like this. Windows Updates were deployed last week, which caused a lot of people to reboot their computers at roughly the same time. This in turn overloaded the Skype login servers. Blame Windows users and blame Microsoft for developing Windows in such a way that it needs to reboot whenever some minor update is installed.
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Normally Skype’s peer-to-peer network has an inbuilt ability to self-heal, however, this event revealed a previously unseen software bug within the network resource allocation algorithm which prevented the self-healing function from working quickly. Regrettably, as a result of this disruption, Skype was unavailable to the majority of its users for approximately two days.
Source: Skype
