[LINK] Skype and VoIP

[Kim Holburn]

He he!!  It was caused by --- millions of windows systems all  
patching and rebooting at the same time:
<http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070820-giant-synchronized- 
reboot-windows-update-smokes-skype.html>
<http://share.skype.com/sites/en/2007/08/ 
what_happened_on_august_16.html>

Windows strikes again.

On 2007/Aug/16, at 11:56 PM, Ivan Trundle wrote:
> Obviously not ready for prime-time stuff. My household experienced  
> a brown-out and then a black-out last night, and upon recovery,  
> Skype wouldn't login. I thought that it might have been related,  
> until I read this:
>
> "UPDATED 14:02 GMT: Some of you may be having problems logging into  
> Skype. Our engineering team has determined that it’s a software  
> issue. We expect this to be resolved within 12 to 24 hours.  
> Meanwhile, you can simply leave your Skype client running and as  
> soon as the issue is resolved, you will be logged in. We apologize  
> for the inconvenience.
> Additionally, downloads of Skype have been temporarily disabled. We  
> will make downloads available again as quickly as possible."
>
> Notably, the stock price of eBay went down on this announcement  
> (i.e., it's serious - eBay owns Skype).
>
> (I updated my Skype yesterday with a new beta - what a big snafu.)
>
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