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Skype has finally explained the reasons behind the 36+ hour outage of their popular P2P VOIP service last week: Windows Users.
According to Skype the outage was caused by “a massive restart of our user’s computers across the globe within a very short timeframe as they re-booted after receiving a routine software update” which The Register points out was Microsoft’s monthly patch Tuesday. Patch Tuesday is the time of the month Windows users receive security updates that often result in widespread reboots by Thursday.
Skype said that whilst their peer-to-peer network has an inbuilt ability to self-heal, the event “revealed a previously unseen software bug within the network resource allocation algorithm which prevented the self-healing function from working quickly.”
1 comment:
Sure it was us. Sure it was windsows. but thats not outr problem i mean if it is a probolem in their software, how could it be out fault? It seems stupid to blame someone else for something you failed to see resulting in bad things happening. When your program kills someone because you overlooked something its called criminal neglagence. now thats law. So if your going to blame windows users blame them for not knowing how to use a damn computer. Yeah thats about it.
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