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So the outage that caused everyone’s Skype connections to go down was down to the fact that a Windows Update required a restart of millions of PCs?

No way, I do not buy it.

If this were to be believable, I would have to accept that:

• The number of installed Windows machines has suddenly reached some critical number that restarting enough of them would bring down Skype, especially as….
• MOST Windows Updates require a restart! You can hardly make any changes to Windows or Office applications without needing to restart, let alone…..
• The fact that such is the crappy nature of Windows that millions of people will be restarting their Windows machines all the time.

Also puzzling was the advice given by Skype  gave to leave Skype running during the outage. How much bandwidth was wasted, how many networks were bogged down with Skype connection requests to a system which they knew could not accept them?

Skype have a lot of goodwill but an outage like this and what seem to be dubious reasons for it have knocked my confidence in them.

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