Skype today explained what happened on August 16th on skype blog. It seems that Microsoft Windows patch has caused this outage, they are blaming Windows patch for bugs in their system.

The disruption was triggered by a massive restart of our users’ computers across the globe within a very short timeframe as they re-booted after receiving a routine set of patches through Windows Update.

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.

I would say windows patch is not an excuse to Skype’s software bugs.

This disruption was unprecedented in terms of its impact and scope. We would like to point out that very few technologies or communications networks today are guaranteed to operate without interruptions.

An interruption of 2 days is not acceptable for business users. Further discussion on Techmeme

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