[LINK] Skype and VoIP

[Ivan Trundle]

On 21/08/2007, at 7:43 AM, Stilgherrian wrote:

> On 21/8/07 6:11 AM, "Kim Holburn" <kim.holburn at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Erm, while this does put me in the unlikely position of defending
> Microsoft...

Ditto - it's odd for a software company to one the one hand declare  
that it found a bug (serious enough to cause an outage) in its own  
algorithms, but to blame another company for precipitating the event.

I'm not sure that Skype should have been able to predict how the  
patch Tuesday event would have affected their system, but  
nonetheless, it was *their* code which was faulty.

iT

>
> Microsoft Tuesday, with "millions of windows systems all patching and
> rebooting at the same time", happens every month. It's not a  
> secret. So
> Skype's login logs would show this, presumably, if they'd looked.  
> And their
> new system should have taken it into account if they'd have thought  
> of it.
>
> OK, obviously they didn't think of it. Big oops. But now they know.
>
> Blaming only Microsoft, only one endpoint of the network  
> connection, seems
> unfair and perhaps propagandistic.
>
> If it happens again, to *any* major software provider, *then* we  
> can point
> and laugh and say "You tossers, you didn't learn from History, did  
> you!"
>
> Stil

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