Skype Blames Microsoft Patch Tuesday for Outage

brajesh writes to tell us that Skype has blamed its outage over the last week on Microsoft's Patch Tuesday. Apparently the huge numbers of computers rebooting (and the resulting flood of login requests) revealed a problem with the network allocation algorithm resulting in a couple days of downtime. Skype further stressed that there was no malicious activity and user security was never in any danger.

That's the reason the use MS

[stecoop]

It's realy convient when you have somone else to blame.

In other news . . .

[UnknowingFool]

Skype blames global warming on Colonel Mustard. In the conservatory (greenhouse). With the pipe. Since Colonel Mustard callously smashed all the windows in the greenhouse, it released all sorts of greenhouse gases into the environment thus dooming all the gay, baby polar bears unless the polar bears cooled themselves off by running the AC units of their Hummers at full blast. Why does Colonel Mustard hate the environment?

Re:Yeah........

[Anonymous Coward]

I think they just managed to hire twitter for their disaster analysis team, he can find a way to blame anything on microsoft.

Oh please!

[raehl]

Somehow, I don't think thats the real story.

Everyone knows that the Slashdot editors only post informed, unbiased article summaries with accurate titles!

And they are ESPECIALLY thorough when the article even tangentially mentions Microsoft.

Re:In other news . . .

[the_fat_kid]

Next: Everyone flushing a toilet at the same time will cause the east coast to go with out water for a week.

Anyone know...

[bogaboga]

Does anyone know what OS those Skype servers are running? If the OS is Linux, then I blame Skype administrators. If it is any flavour of Windows, then I blame Microsoft. Now, some of you might say I am biased.

Re:Wiretap law?

[E++99]

Given that this baby [wiretaping law] was steamrolled through the Congress two weeks ago, the outage seems coincidental.

Consider that Skype could not tell the users of the real reason even if they wanted to: the law mandates that the forced cooperation be kept in secret.

Yes, the US government ordered Skype (a UK company, btw) to shut down for two days and blame it on Microsoft, and they complied. Hint: The aluminum foil goes on your head, not crammed forcibly into your ear.

Read TFA

[fatcat1111]

Skype didn't blame Microsoft for the outage, they attributed it to a bug in their software. Did the subby even read TFA?

Re:Reminds me of AOL crashing mail servers

[IchBinEinPenguin]

Reminds me of the late 90s where AOL's crashing mail servers ...
me2!!

Re:Yeah........

[drjzzz]

"I felt a great disturbance in the Skype, as if millions of PCs suddenly rebooted and suddenly tried to login. I fear something terrible has happened."

Apologies to Obi-Wan [imdb.com].

Re:Wiretap law?

[raju1kabir]

Very insightful. Perhaps the only logical explanation given the duration of service outage.

I agree. Every two-day outage of a web service can only logically be explained as a consequence of George Bush spying on you.

One-day and three-day outages, that's something else entirely.

Re:Yeah........

[twitter]

[Thursday is when Patch Tuesday happened]

Sometimes it's early, sometimes it's late. Sometimes it's big sometimes you don't notice. Ask your girlfriend about TinyFlacid Windoze.

Re:Yeah........

[Raydot]

Yeah, I don't know if I buy the reboot theory, and actually headed over here to say as much when I read the news. Good thing Apple didn't also decide to finally release Leopard! Guess this answers the question of what would happen in New York City if everyone flushed their toilet at the same time.

UserFriendly said it better

[TeXMaster]

http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20070819 [userfriendly.org]